Black Hole Quiz: Point of No Return
6 questions on how black holes form, how astronomers spot them and what happens up close.
- Questions
6 - Length
About 4 min
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- Why does a black hole look black?
- Sort the life of a star that ends as a black hole, earliest first.
- Why does the far side of the glowing disk appear above the black hole in this model?
- If a black hole of equal mass replaced the Sun, what would Earth's orbit do?
- Light crosses the Milky Way in about 100,000 years. How long does light from its center take to reach us?
- What would happen to an astronaut falling feet first into a small black hole?