Statistics for Black Hole Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The region in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer (ie: the point of no return)	Event Horizon	94%
If our sun disappeared and a black hole with the same mass took its place, would Earth fall in to the black hole?	No	93%
The type of black hole with 1 million solar masses	Supermassive	84%
The infinitely dense theoretical core of a black hole	Singularity	81%
The name of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy	Sagittarius A*	50%
The type of black hole with 10 solar masses	Stellar	41%
The term used for the super-heated gas, plasma, dust, and/or particles that orbits certain black holes	Accretion Disk	34%
The term used for the bending of light around black holes and other massive interstellar objects	Gravitational Lensing	25%
The term used for the radius of the event horizon in a non-rotating black hole	The Schwarzschild radius	23%
The term used when an observer witnesses objects slow down infinitely as they approach the event horizon	Time Dilation	23%
The region of spacetime around a rotating black hole that pulls objects along (frame-dragging)	Ergosphere	14%