| Imagine Science: Black Holes - A service of the High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center. A nice introduction to black holes. Intended for ages 14 and up.
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| Falling into a Black Hole (Andrew Hamilton) - 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.
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| Relativity Tutorial - An illustrated guide to relativity
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| skinny monkey takes a look at black holes - a brief overview of black holes - the maths that allows and describes them, their formation, and their weird properties.
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| Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars - Descriptions and MPEG movies that take you on exciting trips. These movies are scientifically accurate computer animations made with strict adherence to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The descriptions are written to be understandable on a variety of levels - from the casually curious to the professionally inquisitive.(a NASA supported site)
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| Black Holes - A one hour lecture given to senior liberal arts students on the concepts surrounding black holes
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| Black Holes - Basic ideas and descriptions of what black holes are and if white holes exist.
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| Big Bang - A book outlining the Yilmaz refinement of Einstein's theory which eliminates black holes and the big bang.
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| Black Holes, Mysterious Objects in Space - Elementary information about black holes, including how they are observed, what happens to particles entering one, and a description of their close relatives, neutron stars.
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| How Stuff Works: How Black Holes Work - What are black holes? Do they really exist? How can we find them?
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| A Black Hole on the Desk - By putting a black hole into a familiar environment like a desk, one may experience what `curvature of space' means in a new way, understanding the cosmological effects of light bending and gravitational lenses from this playground.
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| XMM: Black Holes and Quasars - Educational site on the Birmingham Uni XMM website.
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| Geometry Around Black Holes - A very basic web site on the geometry of black holes and what they would theoretically look like in space time.
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| Black Holes - A very thorough introduction, studies the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom, and Kerr solutions using a variety of coordinate systems. Additional topics include gravitational collapse, horizons, singularities, Carter-Penrose diagrams (aka conformal compactification), Hawking radiation and black hole thermodynamics
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| Black Hole FAQ - Loosely speaking, a black hole is a region of space that has so much mass concentrated in it that there is no way for a nearby object to escape its gravitational pull
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| Anatomy of A Black Hole - From the University of Illinois. Educational sequence suitable for high school students.
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| Black Holes: Portals into the Unknown - An interactive journey into a black hole.
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| Cambridge Relativity - Black Holes - An overview of black holes and information on current research from Cambridge
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| A Black Hole FAQ - A good list of FAQ questions with detailed answers.
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| 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.
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