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Black Holes Mini Quiz
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What boundary marks the point of no return around a black hole?
Gravity at the event horizon is so strong that even light cannot escape, giving black holes their inescapable pull.
What event marks the explosive death of a massive star?
A supernova can briefly outshine an entire galaxy and forge heavy elements such as gold.
What dense remnant forms when a massive star's core collapses in a supernova?
A neutron star packs a Sun-like mass into a city-sized sphere, making a teaspoon of it weigh billions of tons.
What do astronomers detect when two black holes merge?
LIGO's 2015 detection of colliding black holes confirmed gravitational waves, which Einstein predicted in 1916.