Quiz · Black Holes and the Death of Stars

Question 1What is the main idea of this listening passage about massive stars?

How new stars are born from clouds of gas Why galaxies move away from each other The search for planets around distant stars How massive stars die and can become black holes

Question 2How do astronomers study black holes if they cannot observe them directly?

They send small robots into the holes They study their effects on nearby matter They listen to radio signals from the holes They watch them through underwater telescopes

Question 3What did a network of telescopes recently manage to capture?

A star being born inside a nebula The first planets outside our galaxy The dark shadow of a black hole A supernova in our own solar system