StudyDaily

Black holes, galaxies and cosmology

General relativity, curved spacetime and black holes, the Milky Way and other galaxies, quasars and dark matter, then the expanding universe, the Big Bang and the search for life elsewhere.

60 cards EN CC-BY-4.0

Download the deck

Direct download of the archive, licence and attribution included in the file.

Five cards from this deck

Taken from the published archive, unedited. A deck page that shows no card says nothing.

  • Front accretion disk
    Back the disk of gas and dust found orbiting newborn stars, as well as compact stellar remnants such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes when they are in binary systems and are sufficiently close to their binary companions to draw off material
  • Front active galactic nuclei (AGN)
    Back galaxies that are almost as luminous as quasars and share many of their properties, although to a less spectacular degree; abnormal amounts of energy are produced in their centers
  • Front active galaxies
    Back galaxies that house active galactic nuclei
  • Front anthropic principle
    Back idea that physical laws must be the way they are because otherwise we could not be here to measure them
  • Front astrobiology
    Back the multidisciplinary study of life in the universe: its origin, evolution, distribution, and fate; similar terms are exobiology and bioastronomy

Licence, source and attribution

See where this deck comes from and how you may use or share it.

Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC-BY-4.0
Attribution
Source : https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/preface — Licence : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source
OpenStax — Astronomy (first edition)
Retrieved on
Topic
Astronomy
Language
English
Version
3
Updated on

This deck was modified when it was brought in: Entries were taken from the end-of-chapter glossaries of chapters 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and gathered into one deck; the chapter structure of the book is not reproduced. HTML formatting was stripped to plain text, and superscripts and subscripts were converted to the corresponding Unicode characters so that a charge or an index is not lost (H⁺, not H+; T₄, not T4). An entry was dropped when its definition is shorter than 30 characters or longer than 400 characters, when it contains an image, a table or a mathematical formula that is not reproduced here, when it refers to a figure, a table or another chapter, when it is dated by wording such as "currently" or "as of", when it is a bare cross-reference to another term, or when a superscript could not be converted faithfully. Duplicates were removed on the term and on the definition alike, both compared after lowercasing, removing parentheses and reducing plurals to singulars; a term or a definition already used by another Memoquiz deck built from OpenStax was dropped as well. Each deck is capped at 150 entries and holds at least 30. The wording of every definition that was kept is unchanged.

Media rights, file by file

This deck contains no image and no audio: it is text only.

Decks on the same topic