16.Difficult words: extraterrestrial (from outside Earth), ruckus (a lot of noise), quasar (a very large star that makes a large amount of energy and light).
17.These include active galactic nuclei, and quasars which are thought to be the accretion disks of supermassive black holes, and also ultraluminous x-ray sources thought to be from intermediate mass black holes.
18.Almost all the telescopes we have in the world are designed to peer at very tiny little pieces of the sky way off in the distance to see a quasar or hunt for black holes or look at a distant galaxy.
19.I didn't know what a proton was, or a protein, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't understand how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything really.