Black Holes
Across
- 3. orbit 3/2 the radius of the black hole where light can orbit
- 5. singularity at the center of a black hole
- 6. a wormhole connecting a black hole to a white hole, impossible to cross
- 10. two of these colliding often forms a black hole
- 14. paradox relating to black holes radiating away only information about the spin, charge, and mass of the black hole, violating conservation of energy
- 19. singularity that comes from stuff that fell into the black hole before you
- 20. upper mass limit of a neutron star before it collapses into a black hole
- 21. “time loops” that could exist in spinning black holes
- 24. radiation emitted by a black hole
- 25. causes the accretion disk rotating towards you to appear brighter and bluer
- 27. region outside a rotating black hole’s event horizon
- 28. violent stellar explosion that results in a black hole’s creation
- 33. a region for which it’s impossible for matter to orbit a black hole
- 35. large black holes often in the center of a galaxy
- 37. another name for the central singularity of a Kerr black hole
- 38. the milky way’s central black hole
- 39. circular ring created by light being warped by a massive body in front of it
- 40. singularity coming from all the stuff that fell into the black hole after you
- 41. extreme stretching caused by a black hole’s tidal forces
- 42. a supermassive black hole with a bright accretion disk and jets
- 43. an effect in which the light from an object close to a black hole will appear redder
- 44. a black hole’s effect on time as predicted by general relativity
- 45. radius at which an object will collapse into a black hole
- 46. a point of infinite density
Down
- 1. a black hole created via a star exploding in a supernova
- 2. paradox paradox where an attempt to resolve entanglement problems with hawking radiation, violating the equivalence principal
- 4. spinning, electrically charged black hole
- 7. non-spinning, uncharged black hole
- 8. an uncommon type of black hole larger than stellar mass and smaller than supermassive
- 9. the boundary between the inside and outside of a black hole
- 11. secondary horizon inside rotating black holes
- 12. theorem that says that black holes have only 3 properties: spin, charge, and mass
- 13. jet of plasma coming at nearly the speed of light from a supermassive black hole
- 15. the region in the center of a galaxy with high levels of radiation mainly from a central black hole
- 16. disk of hot gas orbiting a black hole
- 17. closest orbit in which in object could orbit a black hole without falling in or flying out
- 18. theory that the observable universe is inside a black hole
- 22. forces caused by the difference in the acceleration due to gravity of the side of an object close to a massive body relative to the side farthest
- 23. spinning, uncharged black hole
- 26. when a black hole spins, it drags spacetime with it
- 29. the warping effect of a massive body, such as a black hole, in front of a light source
- 30. non-spinning, electrically charged black hole
- 31. maximum brightness a black hole’s accretion disk can get
- 32. black holes explained exclusively via quantum effects in string theory
- 33. a means by which energy could be extracted from a black hole
- 34. theory that predicts the existence of black holes
- 36. a hypothetical small type of black hole created in the early universe