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Event Horizon: Shedding Light on Black Holes
A useful site with information on black holes and an animated tour of falling into a black hole.
Space Telescope Science Institute: Black Holes
An interactive voyage to a black hole. The simulated space flight allows you to travel from the Earth to distant black holes at scientifically impossible speeds. Along the way, there's lots to learn ...
Black Hole
A detailed site of the development of hte theory of black holes and the scientists involved. Links with other relevant sites.
Black Hole
Frequently Asked Questions about Black Holes answered by astronomer Dr. Cathy Imhoff of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
How Black Holes Work
Explains the nature of "Black Holes" and how we can detect them. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.
Hawking backs down on black holes
BBC article on Hawking's latest view of black holes.
Anatomy of a black hole
A flash animation exploring the formation and workings of a black hole. What would happen if you sent a spaceship inside?
Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars
A fantasy but an experience also of traveling through black holes. The authors have produced compact, downloadable movie files to view. A good visual resource if teaching astrophysics or gravitation. ...
Black Hole
A mathematical description of a black hole.
Falling Into and Hovering Near a Black Hole
Considers an observer hovering just outside the event horizon of a black hole, and the acceleration of gravity experienced. Also looks at an object falling through the event horizon.



