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Black Holes Quiz

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### Black Holes Quiz

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1. **What is a black hole?**
a) A type of star
b) An area in space with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it
c) A dark region of a galaxy
d) A theoretical astronomical phenomenon

2. **Who first proposed the concept of a black hole?**
a) Albert Einstein
b) John Michell
c) Stephen Hawking
d) Karl Schwarzschild

3. **What is the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?**
a) Event horizon
b) Singularity
c) Photon sphere
d) Accretion disk

4. **What are the three main types of black holes?**
a) Quantum, Stellar, Supermassive
b) Stellar, Supermassive, and Primordial
c) Dark, Light, Quantum
d) Stellar, Intermediate, Supermassive

5. **What phenomenon can occur near a black hole due to its intense gravity?**
a) Time dilation
b) Gravitational lensing
c) Tidal forces
d) All of the above

6. **Which telescope provided the first direct image of a black hole?**
a) Hubble Space Telescope
b) Event Horizon Telescope
c) Chandra X-ray Observatory
d) Kepler Space Telescope

7. **What is the hypothetical result of a black hole that accumulates enough mass?**
a) It disappears
b) It becomes a neutron star
c) It can merge with another black hole
d) It turns into a white hole

8. **What is Hawking radiation?**
a) Radiation emitted by a black hole
b) A theoretical prediction that black holes can emit particles
c) Radiation that escapes a black hole
d) Light waves emitted from stars near a black hole

9. **What happens to the light that gets too close to a black hole?**
a) It escapes and continues traveling
b) It is bent and can be seen from outside
c) It is absorbed and cannot escape
d) It creates a spectrum of colors

10. **What happens at the singularity of a black hole?**
a) Matter is compressed into a point of infinite density
b) Time stops completely
c) Quantum physics no longer applies
d) All of the above

#### Answers

1. b
2. b
3. a
4. b
5. d
6. b
7. c
8. b
9. c
10. d

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