Singularities
Past, Present, and Future
Cosmic Neighborhoods
The Basics (?)
Strange Stuff
100

We can't know because no light can escape it.

What is inside a black hole?

100

It will most likely keep coasting along, expanding and cooling.

What will happen to the Universe?

100

We are developing theories rapidly as we get new data from JWST.

Why do some galaxies look weird?

100

We probably don't understand it well in extreme conditions.

What's up with gravity?

100

We don't have a good way to estimate a probability.

What is the probability of (intelligent) life?

200

We believe that the black holes inject energy into the surrounding gas, preventing star formation.

What is the relationship between AGN and their host galaxies/clusters?

200

There's about a 50% chance.

Will we collide with Andromeda?

200

We know about some big ones like the Gaia Sausage.

How many merger events built the Milky Way?

200

It's probably NOT a bunch of yet-unobserved planets and/or brown dwarfs.

What is dark matter?

200

We have observed a large handful, but it requires very detailed measurements of the atmosphere and composition.

What fraction of exoplanets are habitable?

300

Either they formed there directly or they started out small and grew very quickly.

How did we get SMBHs in the center of (nearly) every galaxy?

300

We can't agree on whether its 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc.

How fast is the Universe expanding?

300

We know that it was very early on, shortly after the first stars formed.

How did galaxies form?

300

It does not get diluted as the Universe expands.

What is dark energy?

300

We think they come from magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars.

What produces fast radio bursts?

400

It seems to disappear, which is a paradox.

What happens to information that disappears inside a black hole?

400

Our theories break down under the extreme physical conditions.

What happened in the very early Universe?

400

We think they are regions of increased stellar density.

How do galaxy spiral arms form?

400

We think that it is on large scales.

Is the Universe the same everywhere?

400

We need to measure its mass and radius to find out.

What is the composition of a neutron star?

500

We mostly observe them at low and high masses.

Are there intermediate mass black holes?

500

We think it was sometime between 400 million and 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

When did reionization happen?

500

It's not clear whether it grew after it got there or before.

How did we end up with a massive BCG at the center of every galaxy cluster?

500

We can only see part of it.

How big is the Universe?

500

They would violate fundamental laws.

Are there wormholes?