Black Holes trivia

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Black Holes Mini Quiz

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Question 1

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.

Question 2

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.

Question 3

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.

Question 4

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.