wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Black Holes

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How Big is a Solar Mass
a)
The Size of Earth
b)
The size of the Sun
c)
The Size of the star HJ - X1BY976
d)
The size of a 20,000 X 20,000 X 20,000 mile cube
2.
What Are The Two Main Classes of Black holes
a)
Stellar and Supermassive
b)
Micro and Intermediate
c)
Stellar and Intermediate
d)
Intermediate and Supermassive
3.
The Closets Black Hole From Earth Is __________ Light Years away.
a)
27,000
b)
270,000
c)
17,000
d)
37,000
4.
How Does A Black Hole Distort Light
a)
It Makes A Ring Of Light Around It's self
b)
It Curves Light at a 290 degree angle
c)
It Makes The Sky Around It All White For A mile
d)
It is unknown how black holes distort light
5.
When Your Body Goes Inside A Black Hole The Stretching effect is called what
a)
spaghettification
b)
stretchification 
c)
longification
d)
sausageification
6.
A ________ black hole can make a worm hole
a)
spinning
b)
moving
c)
decaying
d)
radioactive
7.
How do we spot Black Holes
a)
By using gamma rays and x-rays to detect high energy sources
b)
By using high energy to detect gamma rays and x-rays
c)
By using radioactive waves to detect high energy  sources
d)
By using massive telescopes to detect gamma rays
8.
How Does A Star Collapse
a)
The Core of the star has a greater gravity than the surface
b)
The Surface of the star has a greater gravity than the core
c)
A massive explosion occurs in the core which collapses the star
9.
According To the Schwarzschild Radius what size would you have to compress the earth to make a black hole
a)
One cubic centimeter
b)
One nanometer
c)
The size of two peanuts
d)
The size of a peanut
10.
Where are the most supermassive black holes
a)
In most constellations
b)
It is unkown
c)
In the center of most galaxies
d)
Right next to large stars
11.
What was the first discovered black hole
a)
1-X Cygnus
b)
Cygnus 1-X
c)
Cgynus X-1
d)
Cygnus X-1
12.
When did Albert Einstein Predict the black hole with his theory of relativity
a)
1916
b)
1926
c)
1899
d)
1945
13.
Why Do some people think white holes might exist
a)
Albert Marian predicted that white holes exist with his theory of psychical science
b)
An ESA astronomer walked out of
 his home and saw a small circle shooting out a stream of white
c)
In 2006 NASA saw an explosion of light in deep space that can not be explained
d)
In 2008 the hubble space telescope saw what they thought was a black hole but it was white
14.
Supermassive black holes are so powerful they can bend, warp and shatter time
a)
True
b)
False
15.
What Are the two secondary classes of black holes
a)
Micro and Intermediate 
b)
Micro and Stellar
c)
Micro and Supermassive
d)
Intermediate and Stellar
16.
When did the term "Black Hole" come into use 
a)
1945
b)
1970
c)
1619
d)
1916
17.
When Our Sun Dies It Will Make a Black Hole
a)
True
b)
False