Vocabulary
A region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light can escape.
A Black Hole
True/False: Do black holes suck stuff in?
False
This force is one of the core foundations of a black hole
What is gravity?
A point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole
What is Event Horizon?
True/False: Do black holes lead to different pockets in the universe?
False
These three black hole anatomy parts make up black holes
What is Singularity, Accretion Disk, and Event Horizon?
What is Singularity?
True/False: Black holes are black because they let nothing can escape, not even light.
True
The singularity of a black hole is like trying to cram all of Earth's mass into this tiny ball
What is a marble?
A swirling disk of gas and dust that orbits the black hole that heats up to extreme temperatures and glows brightly
What is Accretion Disk?
What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
What is spaghettification?
If the world's most powerful rocket came within this mile radius of the world's most powerful black hole, it would be trapped
What is 106.6 billion miles?
The process where an object is stretched into a long, thin shape, like a strand of spaghetti, by intense tidal forces from a black hole's powerful gravitational field
What is Spaghettification?
How do black holes form?
When a huge star collapses and explodes, the remnants become the black hole
What 4 word sentence was on the very first slide?
What is "Black Holes are Cool"