Across
- 4. the center of a black hole
- 5. speed needed to escape from the gravitational pull of another object
- 7. Neutron stars are ____ sized
- 8. the unit of measurement for measuring mass in the universe
- 12. All matter tends to warp or curve ____ in its vicinity.
- 13. when a star explodes
- 15. nothing can escape it once it enters
- 17. What happens when you get too close to a black hole
- 18. Critical radius at which the escape speed of an object would equal the speed of light
- 19. The type of star that has immense gravity and is about the size of a city
- 20. Interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things with mass or energy
Down
- 1. Rotating neutron stars observed to have pulses of radiation at very regular intervals
- 2. The core of a star collapses into a black hole while simultaneously a burst of gamma rays races outward, implodes onto the black hole forming a accretion disk and a relativistic jet.
- 3. _____ pulsars spin hundreds of times per second
- 6. neutron stars have a very strong _______ field
- 9. Neutron stars are ______ times denser than a white dwarf
- 10. Time gets ______ as you get closer to a black hole
- 11. blue light shifts to red light
- 14. Once light enters it cannot escape
- 16. _____ can travel faster than the speed of light
