black holes - 2025 PACE NSC

Question

"Extremal" examples of these objects, for which a equals one, violate a "third law" due to another quantity vanishing. The denominator of a formula for these objects' power contains the coefficient (0[1])15,360 (0[1])times pi. These objects motivated development of the holographic principle. (20[6]0[1])Jacob (20[4])Bekenstein helped to describe (20[1]0[1])the proportionality (20[1])between the (*) surface area of these objects (10[4]0[1])and entropy. (10[2]0[1])The (10[1])only knowable (10[2])information (10[1])about these (10[1])objects (10[2])is their mass, (10[3])charge, (10[1])and (10[1])angular (10[1])momentum, (10[7])according to the (10[1])no-hair theorem. (0[1])These objects may evaporate via Hawking radiation, which causes their Schwarzschild radius to decrease. (10[1])For 10 points, name these objects from which light cannot escape. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: black holes [prompt on event horizon by asking "what objects contain an event horizon?"]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Samy El-Zahabi	Chattahoochee B	Thomas Jefferson B	30	0
Tate Osborne	Alabama Cyber Tech	Classen SAS	31	0
Aadi Pudasaini	Lexington	Eastchester	41	20
Vidur Kothur	Lindbergh	Fairfield County AT	41	20
Kaiden Lee	Northview	Downingtown STEM	41	20
Jefferson Ji	Westwood	Quince Orchard	41	20
Andrew Zhao	Richard Montgomery	Okemos	41	20
Sean Harbison	West Point	Walter Payton A	41	20
Camden Williams	Audrain County AT	Wayzata	41	0
Jonathan Ouyang	Uni of Illinois Laboratory	Adlai E. Stevenson B	42	20
Draco Qiao	Carmel A	Innovation Academy A	42	20
Aditya Khambekar	Seven Lakes	Lambert A	42	20
Daniel Guo	Uni School of Nashville A	Yukon A	42	20
Daniel Sheffield	Belmont	Montgomery Blair A	46	20
Sasha Tripathi	Parkway West	Adlai E. Stevenson A	46	0
Neel Rege	Great Valley	Thomas Jefferson A	48	20
Maxwell Swann	Centennial A	Solon	55	0
Max Chen	Strake Jesuit A	Chattahoochee A	55	10
Henry Nolan	Herron	Lincoln-Way East B	55	10
Anirudh "Ani" Srinivasan	Adlai E. Stevenson A	Parkway West	55	10
Kevin Qiu	Wayzata	Audrain County AT	55	10
Brandon Torres	Carl Sandburg	Saratoga	57	10
Kevin Adler	Northmont	Fremd	57	10
Rochan Saireddy	Lambert B	Park Tudor	57	0
Sreyas Sabbani	Innovation Academy B	Edina	58	10
Evan Xue	Johns Creek	Detroit Catholic Central A	60	10
Everett Van Til	Homewood-Flossmoor	Thomas Jefferson C	60	10
Tyler Song	Winston Churchill A	Uni School of Nashville B	61	10
Karthik Jayaram	Walker	Hunter A	63	10
Hrishi Bhooma	Thomas Jefferson D	Lee's Summit	64	10
Charlie Doehring	Hinsdale Central A	Montgomery Blair B	64	10
Ryan Chang	Centennial B	Saint Joseph	67	10
Roman Salda	Yukon B	Milton	67	10
Walker Varghese	Hunter B	North Quincy	67	10
David Scott	Lincoln-Way East A	Virginia	68	10
Ray Guan	Winston Churchill B	Northside College Prep	69	10
Kate Gu	Irvington	Walter Payton B	70	10
Sreekar Vajjha	Classen SAS	Alabama Cyber Tech	71	10
Wyatt Johnson	Solon	Centennial A	71	10
Saathvik Koneru	Detroit Catholic Central B	Thomas Jefferson E	71	10
Colin Maxworthy	Detroit Catholic Central C	Glenbrook South	71	10
Haughton Neppl	Georgetown Day	Grosse Pointe South	71	10
Cinna Davis	Kane County AT	Page	71	10
Snehan Saroch	Russell	Strake Jesuit B	71	10
Aarushi Kanigicherla	Thomas Jefferson B	Chattahoochee B	74	10
Kaitlyn Leonard	Barrington	Coronado	76	0
Anna Liao	Carmel B	White Pigeon	90	10
Reed Karosich	Coronado	Barrington	102	10
Evan Ting	Park Tudor	Lambert B	102	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 PACE NSC	06/07/2025	Y	42	100%	29%	0%	60.60