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Black Holes

Materials

1. Black Holes - Falling Into (Hamilton)
   Provides animations to illustrate the effects of black holes. 3-01
2. Black Holes With a Bright Glow (International Herald Tribune - Glanz)
   Describes a black hole with a bright glow, changing our understanding of black holes. The glow is believed to come from friction with magnetic fields near the event horizon. 3-01

News

1. Chandra X-ray Observatory (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
   Provides the latest news on the X-ray observatory for space, black holes, and pioneering explorations using very high resolution methods. 9-00

Papers

1. Black Holes (KidsAstronomy.com)
   Provides a diagram and description of a black hole, singularity, and event horizon. 11-00.
2. Black Holes (Royal Observatory)
   Discusses black holes and gravity. High school level and above. 10-00
3. Black Holes May Help Form Galaxies (Washington Post - Suplee)
   Provides results from different teams of scientists that suggest that black holes may actually cause the formation of galaxies. Provides a theory about the relationship among quasars, galaxies, and black holes. Story written in January of 2000. 7-00
4. Interferometry (University of Colorado - Cash)
   Explains a method of "seeing" that uses X-rays and is up to a thousand times more powerful than other methods (that use visible light) for studying distant objects. A special focus of this science is to see "black holes." 9-00