Tuesday, May 7, 2013

5/7/13 Quiz VC



Vinnie Caringella
Astronomy
5-7-13
Quiz

1. Images of the deep universe allow us to study galaxies at many different distances
2. Our models of galaxy formation suggest that protogalactic clouds formed in regions of slightly enhanced density in the early universe.
3. Elliptical galaxies may have formed from protogalactic clouds that were spinning more slowly or were denser than those that formed spiral galaxies.
4. Quasars are extremely luminous and are a very energetic and distant active galactic nucleus.
5. Quasars are probably powered by matter falling into supermassive black holes.
6. Observations of rapidly orbiting material at the centers of galaxies indicate that at least some galaxies, and perhaps all of them, harbor supermassive black holes.
7. A quasi-stellar radio source.
8. Maarten Schmidt is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of quasars. 
9. Cosmology is the study of the origins and eventual fate of the universe.
10. The Cosmological Principle is the dynamical structure principle that falls from the working assumption that the distribution of matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotopic when viewed on a large enough scale.

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