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Science Matters!

A question and answer forum on new science, covering pulsars, black holes, the big bang and more.

http://www.treasure-net.com/smatters/smatters.htm

Gas Disks

Images and text relating to the discovery of a massive black hole at the centre of the M87 Galaxy. Images from the Hubble Space Telescope are visible

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/94/23.html

Cosmology FAQ

A long lisit of cosmology questions, dealing with subjects such as the Big Bang, dark matter, black holes, the expanding universe.

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html

Black Holes: What Happens to a Star When It Dies

A star exists in a delicate balance between the crushing force of gravity, on the one hand, and the push of incredibly hot gases on the other.

http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/blackholes-1.cfm

Einstein Online

A great site about Einstein's ideas with lots of information on special and general relativity, cosmology, gravitational waves, black holes.

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http://www.einstein-online.info/elementary

Build Your Own Star â€“ Virtual Experiment

Create your own star and watch its life play out. Can you create a black hole?

http://www.seed.slb.com/flash/science/lab/airspace/byo_star/en/byostar.htm?width=805&height=550&popu

Frame-dragging by Black Holes

This article reviews the recent work that has proved Einstein's relativistic theory of "Frame-dragging", using observations from X-ray astronomy satellites.

http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1997/ast06nov97_1/

What is Hawking radiation?

A description of Hawking radiation, which, theoretically, causes black holes to shrink.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/BlackHoles/hawking.html

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995) In 1930 he showed that a star of a mass greater than 1.4 times that of the Sun had to end its life by collapsing into an object of enormous density unlike any ...