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Journey through the Cosmos

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Embark on a cosmic adventure and test your knowledge about black holes, the Big Bang, and the mysteries of the universe.

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1
What is a light year?
Time unit
Speed unit
Mass unit
Distance unit
2
What is the Milky Way?
Planet
Comet
Galaxy
Star
3
What is the universe's speed limit?
Light
Gravity
Wind
Sound
4
What are some stars by the time their light reaches Earth?
Invisible
New
Bright
Dead or ghosts
5
How far is Neptune from Earth?
30,000 years
4 light hours
8 minutes
1 light second
6
What did the Big Bang form?
Stars
Galaxies
Matter and energy
Planets
7
What did Herschel coin a word for?
Astronomy
Chemistry
Photography
Physics
8
What is the Big Bang?
Universe creation
Planet birth
Star explosion
Galaxy formation
9
What did Einstein call high-speed rules?
Quantum rules
Physics laws
Relativity principles
Gravity laws
10
What moves faster than light?
Sound
Gravity
Nothing
Neutrinos
11
What did the Crab Nebula become?
Galaxy
Black hole
Star
Supernova
12
What did the Crab Nebula explode into?
Supernova
Black hole
Galaxy
Star
13
How far is the Sun from Earth?
4 light hours
93 million miles
1 light second
8 minutes
14
What is the speed of light?
600,000 km/s
450,000 km/s
150,000 km/s
300,000 km/s
15
What is a supermassive black hole?
Planet
Galaxy center
Comet
Small star
16
True or false: Earth turns at 1,600 km/h
False
True
17
What did the Big Bang form?
Galaxies
Matter and energy
Stars
Black holes
18
What is the distance light travels in one year?
Light minute
Light second
Light year
Light hour
19
What word did Herschel coin?
Astronomy
Relativity
Cosmology
Photography
20
What is the Sun's distance from Earth?
120 million miles
93 million miles
150 million miles
50 million miles
21
What is the universe made of?
Galaxies
Planets
Matter and energy
Stars
22
What was formed during the Big Bang?
Black holes
Stars
Galaxies
Matter and energy
23
What is the boundary of a black hole?
Singularity
Photon sphere
Event horizon
Accretion disk
24
What is the Milky Way's shape?
Spiral
Circular
Elliptical
Irregular
25
What did clouds of hydrogen form?
Supernova
Planets
Stars and galaxies
Black holes
26
What is the center of the Milky Way?
30,000 light years
4 light hours
8 minutes
1 light second
27
How fast is the Milky Way moving?
8 minutes
30,000 km/h
1.5 million mph
1,600 km/h
28
What is the Milky Way's center distance?
10,000 light years
70,000 light years
30,000 light years
50,000 light years
29
How long does sunlight take to reach Earth?
4 hours
8 minutes
30,000 years
1 second
30
Who did Neil Degrasse meet in 1975?
Isaac Newton
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Carl Sagan
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What did Herschel discover?
Pluto
Uranus
Black holes
Neptune
32
What is a supernova?
Star explosion
Star birth
Galaxy creation
Planet formation
33
Who did Neil Degrasse meet in 1975?
Hawking
Carl Sagan
Einstein
Herschel
34
What did Einstein call certain rules?
Big Bang Theory
Laws of Gravity
Principles of Relativity
Quantum Mechanics
35
What is the Crab Nebula?
Star
Galaxy
Supernova remnant
Planet
36
How far is the moon?
4 light hours
8 minutes
1 light second
30,000 light years
37
What is a light year?
Weight measure
Time measure
Distance measure
Speed measure
38
What is Cygnus X-1?
Planet
Black hole
Galaxy
Star
39
True or false: Light travels faster than anything
False
True
40
What is the event horizon?
Galaxy edge
Star's surface
Black hole boundary
Planet's orbit
41
What is a dark star today?
Galaxy
Black hole
Star
Supernova
42
What light found Cygnus X-1?
Visible light
UV light
Infrared
X-rays
43
What black hole exists in galaxy centers?
Primordial black hole
Supermassive black hole
Stellar black hole
Micro black hole
44
What are the laws of gravity?
Flexible
Variable
Unknown
Unbreakable
45
What might a black hole universe give rise to?
Planets
Stars
Galaxies
Its own black holes
46
True or false: Milky Way moves at 1.5M mph
True
False
47
What is a black hole?
Planet
Bright star
Dark star
Comet
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How fast is Earth turning?
30,000 km/h
1,600 km/h
8 minutes
1.5 million mph