Black Holes
Across
- 1. "As we observe an object approach a source of gravity, we observe its rate of pass of time to"
- 3. The minimum stable orbital distance from a 4 solar mass black hole (2 words)
- 4. "As the velocity of an object approaches the speed of light, its mass appears to"
- 6. These distort the shapes of objects as they approach a black hole (2 words)
- 7. The only thing in the Universe which is not relative (3 words)
- 9. The principle that demonstrates that the effects of gravity and accelerated motion are identical
- 12. This law protects us from the unpredictable properties of singularities (2 words)
- 15. A place surrounding a rotating black hole where it is impossible to be still
- 17. The type of redshift observed when a photon escapes from a massive object
- 18. horizon "The ""surface"" of a black hole"
- 19. The type of star at the location of Cygnus X-1
- 20. The theory of relativity which is NOT a theory of gravity
- 21. If we could observe an object traveling at the speed of light we would measure its length along the direction of motion to be
- 23. The number of dimensions in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
- 26. Where do the X-rays originate from in Cygnus X-1? (2 words)
Down
- 2. "At the end of fusion, the core of a very high mass star is too massive to form one of these (2 words)"
- 4. The I in LIGO
- 5. If you look at the light from stars close to the event horizon of a black hole you will see this (2 words)
- 8. Light follows this property of spacetime around a massive object
- 10. The charge on a black hole which attracts an electron
- 11. Ripples in spacetime
- 13. A tunnel through hyperspace between two distant parts of the Universe
- 14. Objects with high escape velocities have high
- 16. The radius of a 5 solar mass black hole in kilometers
- 22. Newton's theory of gravity cannot explain the existence of black holes because light has no
- 24. The star at the location of Cygnus X-1 emits which kind of radiation most strongly?
- 25. At the center of a black hole