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• 'Death Spiral' Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of Event Horizon

  http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/03/text/
  Article explains how Hubble telescope has observed the disappearance of matter.

• A Mystery in the Galactic Center

  http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/21feb_mwbh/
  A NASA article describing the likelihood that a black hole can be found at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

• Anatomy of A Black Hole

  http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/BlackHoles.html
  Educational sequence suitable for high school students.

• Black Hole FAQ

  http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html
  Answers to black hole questions like "How big is a black hole?" ,"How do black holes evaporate?", and "What is a wormhole?".

• Black Holes

  http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/universe_level1/black_holes.html
  What is a black hole and how do we know it exists?(for K-4th graders)

• Black Holes

  http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/universe_level2/black_holes.html
  Information about black holes and how we know they exist, links to glossary terms and a movie about a "Journey into a Black hole."

• Black Holes to Blackboards-God Divided by Zero

  http://www.astrosociety.org/publications/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.

• Falling into a Black Hole

  http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
  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.

• HubbleSite - NewsCenter Archive

  http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/category/exotic/black%20hole/
  Articles about and photos of black holes.

• HubbleSite: Black Holes

  http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/
  Presents information on the properties, formation, and location of black holes. Includes an interactive voyage simulator and an encyclopedia of terms.

• Jillian's Guide to Black Holes

  http://www.gothosenterprises.com/black_holes/
  Introduction to the types, formation, and environment inside and outside of black holes.

• No Escape: The Truth about Black Holes

  http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/blackholes/lesson/index.html
  Interactive activity designed to teach about black holes.

• Numerical Relativity Movies

  http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/MoviesEdge.html
  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.

• The Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy

  http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sblkhole.htm
  About the 2004 discovery that the center of our galaxy holds a black hole 3.7 million times heavier than the Sun

• The Space Place: Fall into a Black Hole

  http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/black-hole-boardgame/
  A printable board game from NASA.

• Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars

  http://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
  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.

 

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