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- Anatomy of A Black Hole - Educational sequence suitable for high school students.
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/BlackHoles.html
- Black Hole : The Death of a Star - Welcome to the Dark Side! Learn all about black holes from a ThinkQuest team.
library.thinkquest.org/12676
- Black Hole FAQ - Answers to black hole questions like "How big is a black hole?" ,"How do black holes evaporate?", and "What is a wormhole?".
cfpa.berkeley.edu/BHfaq.html
- Black Holes - What is a black hole and how do we know it exists?(for K-4th graders)
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/universe_level1/black_holes.html
- Black Holes - Information about black holes and how we know they exist, links to glossary terms and a movie about a "Journey into a Blackhole."
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/universe_level2/black_holes.html
- Black Holes - A review of the theory and history of black holes.
www.suite101.com/article.cfm/advanced_physics/28145
- Black Holes - Offers information about blackholes such as what they are and how scientists locate them. Also includes photographs.
tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3645/blackholes.html?tqskip=1
- Black Holes and Neutron Stars - Offers a non-technical discussion about black holes and neutron stars. Topics include what they are, how they are form, and how to detect them.
www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/BH/blkmain.html
- Black Holes to Blackboards-God Divided by Zero - Laying your hands on a black hole is hard (and dangerous) to do, but there are ways to understand these objects and avoid the pain of dimension-bending.
www.aspsky.org/mercury/mercury/9802/lockwood.html
- Black Holes: General Information - Learn about the amazing phenomenon that is a black hole.
www.geocities.com/blackholeinfo
- Black Holes: Portals into the Unknown - An interactive journey into a black hole.
library.thinkquest.org/10148
- Falling into a Black Hole - Fall into a black hole on a real free fall orbit. All distortions of images are real, both general relativistic from the gravitational bending of light, and special relativistic from the near light speed orbit.
casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
- Howstuffworks "How Black Holes Work" - Black holes are some of the most amazing objects in the universe -- they may even hold many galaxies together! Learn all about them!
www.howstuffworks.com/black-hole.htm
- Jillian's Guide to Black holes - This site offers a comprehensive and nontechnical description of black holes, their evolution, structure and environment.
www.phy.syr.edu/courses/PHY312.98Spring/projects/jebornak
- Massive Black Holes - From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this site hopes to answer questions about the possibility of massive black holes.
arise.jpl.nasa.gov/arise/blackholes/blackholes.html
- Naked Singularity - This site was created by Mark O'Brien and John Chang for their end-of-the-year physics project during their junior year at Clackamas High School in Milwaukie, Oregon. Their assignment was to create an informative webpage for future physics students. The result is the black hole website you see here.
www.rdrop.com/users/green/school
- Numerical Relativity Movies - Virtual reality and informational movies on black holes. This site is associated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications(NCSA), and is for students in middle school and above.
jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Movies
- Project 2000: Black Holes - Pictures, diagrams, and explanations of black holes in an easy to understand format. Good site for someone doing research on black holes for a report or project.
www.homestead.com/sciproj
- The Search for Black Holes - A brief overview of black holes, information about the discovery of Cygnus X-1, and a short list of links relating to black holes and astronomy.
www.owlnet.rice.edu/~spac250/steve
- Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars - Here you will find descriptions and MPEG movies that take you on trips to black holes and neutron stars. These movies are scientifically accurate computer animations using Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
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