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Astronomy Unit 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accretion | Growing by being added to |
| White Dwarf Material | Electrons are no loner free to circulate but are confined to a very small space |
| Neutron Star Material | Shrinkage of ordinary matter to where it only has neutrons and no space within it |
| Singularity | Bending of space in on itself and leaves our universe |
| Quasar | Starlike body emits huge amounts of energy in a short time |
| Chains and sheets of galactic superclusters form | Linked by gravity at their edges across the entire cosmos |
| Supercluster | Universe's largest scale of structure, a cluster of clusters |
| Synchrotron Radiation | Our galaxy's central bulge is home to spirals of electrons around lines of magnetic force |