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Lists sites containing information about the observational evidence for black holes (stellar dynamics, accretion disks, X-ray observations).

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• Active Galactic Nuclei

Resources in This Category

• Astrophysical Evidence for the Existence of Black Holes

  http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912186
  Review article by Annalisa Celotti, John C. Miller, and Dennis W. Sciama (SISSA, Trieste) about the current state of the search for observational evidence for the existence of both stellar-mass and supermassive black holes.

• Black Holes in Astrophysics

  http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506078
  Review article by Ramesh Narayan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) about the astrophysical evidence for black holes.

• Closest Star Seen Orbiting the Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way

  http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210426
  Article by R. Schodel and colleagues (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) about the best evidence to date for the existence of a supermassive black hole in the center of our own galaxy - the way it influences the orbits of nearby stars.

• Detection of Hard X-ray Emission from the Galactic Nuclear Region with INTEGRAL

  http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311147
  Article by Guillaume Belanger and colleagues; recounts X-ray observations of the neighborhood of our galaxy's central black hole.

• Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon

  http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310692
  Review article by Ramesh Narayan about possible observational evidence for the defining feature of black holes.

• Field Guide to X-ray Sources

  http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/blackholes.html
  Pages on the website of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory; includes information about stellar, mid-mass and supermassive black holes, Chandra images, and a podcast.

• Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Disk Fueling Possible Black Hole

  http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1992/27/text/
  News item published on the website of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

• Radio Astronomers Lift 'Fog' on Milky Way's Dark Heart

  http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2004/sagastar/
  Press release by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory about observations of the immediate neighborhood of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole.

• Study of Accretion Processes on Black Holes: Fifty Years of Developments

  http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402562
  Review article by Sandip K. Chakrabarti of the research done on one of the main mechanisms by which black holes cause highly luminous phenomena in their immediate neighborhood.

• The Afterglow of Massive Black Hole Coalescence

  http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410343
  Article by Milos Milosavljevic and Stearl Phinney; describes the kind of afterglow that should be visible for X-ray telescopes when two massive black holes merge.

• XMM: Black Holes and Quasars

  http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/xmm/blackholes.html
  Educational pages on the website of the space-borne X-ray telescope XMM, hosted by the University of Birmingham. Information about black holes and other astronomical sources of X-rays.

 

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