Black Holes And Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne
  • 1. What is a black hole?
A) A type of neutron star.
B) A cloud of gas and dust.
C) A large star in its red giant phase.
D) A region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from it.
  • 2. What phenomenon is associated with black holes bending space-time?
A) Quantum entanglement
B) Gravitational lensing
C) String theory
D) Dark matter
  • 3. What aspect of black holes did Kip Thorne contribute to?
A) Quantum mechanics
B) Gravitational waves
C) Thermodynamics
D) Cosmology
  • 4. What theoretical object can result from the collapse of a massive star?
A) A black hole
B) A red giant
C) A white dwarf
D) A brown dwarf
  • 5. What can potentially occur at the center of a black hole?
A) A supernova remnant.
B) A quasar.
C) A singularity.
D) A neutron star.
  • 6. What is theoretical concept that links black holes with wormholes?
A) Einstein-Rosen bridges
B) The inflation theory
C) Hawking radiation
D) Feynman diagrams
  • 7. Which scientist proposed the concept of gravitational waves?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Max Planck
C) Niels Bohr
D) Albert Einstein
  • 8. What did Kip Thorne win the Nobel Prize in Physics for?
A) The discovery of black holes
B) The theory of relativity
C) The observation of gravitational waves
D) The unification of forces
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