Flat illustration of a black hole with a swirling orange accretion disk and light beams on a light gray background

Can you track the violent physics of black hole formation in this space trivia?

Difficulty

Hard

Questions

Volts

3/q

Einstein predicted them and Schwarzschild solved the math, but can you survive the physics? Track the death of massive stars from inert iron cores to the blinding flare of AT2018cow. You will need to identify the subatomic particles and gravitational waves that define a birth.

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