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- 3. jet powerful beams of plasma that are ejected from supermassive black holes
- 5. ripples in spacetime
- 8. Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
- 10. What type of black hole is at the center of most large galaxies?
- 11. Black holes are mostly detected by their
- 12. of light 299,792,458 meters per second.
- 16. when the speed an object needs to travel to overcome the black hole's immense gravity and escape its event horizon
- 21. when an object gets stretched due to the gravitational pull of a black hole
- 23. Who first proposed the idea of black holes?
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- 1. The density of the center of a black hole is…
- 2. A system built of billions of stars
- 4. The type of radiation that black holes emit due to quantum effects, causing them to shrink and evaporate over time
- 6. standard unit of mass in astronomy
- 7. created the general theory of relativity and predicted the existence of black holes
- 9. a type of black hole that falls between the mass of stellar black holes and supermassive black holes
- 12. the predicted central point of a black hole where infinite density and gravity occur
- 13. What type of black holes form when extremely massive stars collapse
- 14. The closer you get to a black hole time gets
- 15. The galaxy that contains our solar system
- 17. When a structure forms around a black hole made from orbiting gas, plasma, or dust.
- 18. smallest type of black holes
- 19. A. Super Massive Black hole at the center of the milky way
- 20. What constellation has the closest black hole in it from earth
- 22. the point of no return around a black hole
