Black Holes
About Astronomy and Space - Black Holes
Find articles, information, and web sites about these theoretical cellestial objects, formed when a massive star collapses from its own gravity.
APOD Index - Stars: Black Holes
A list of black holes pictures from NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" archive.
Black Hole Recipe: Slow Light, Swirl Atoms
Physicists may soon create artificial analogs of black holes in the laboratory.
Black Holes
Observational evidence for black holes, and some developments involving cosmic censorship and the statistical origin of black hole entropy. Reviews of Modern Physics.
Black Holes and Naked Singularities
This article gives an elementary review of gravitational collapse and the cosmic censorship hypothesis. Known models of collapse resulting in the formation of black holes and…
Black Holes made Simple
An overview of modern research in black holes without the use of mathematical equations.
Black Holes: A general introduction
This article presents in a pictorial way the basic concepts of black hole's theory, as well as a description of the astronomical sites where black holes are suspected to lie.
Cambridge Relativity - Black Holes
An overview of black holes and information on current research from Cambridge.
Developments in General Relativity: Black Hole Singularity and Beyond
Presentation also addresses the questions: "Can we see inside a black hole?" and "Can a falling observer cross the singularity without being crushed?"
FAQ to SCI.PHYSICS on Black Holes
An FAQ list by Matt McIrvin containing basic questions and answers related to black holes.
Geometry Around Black Holes
An exhibition on relativistic computer dynamics used to present the theory of black holes.
Gravitational Redshift
An overview of the effects on light in the presence of a black hole.
Hawking Radiation
Classically, black holes are black. Quantum mechanically, black holes radiate, with a radiation known as Hawking radiation, after the British…
Higher Dimensional Chern-Simons Theories and Topological Black Holes
It has been recently pointed out that black holes of constant curvature with a "chronological singularity" can be constructed in any spacetime dimension. In this pa…
Introduction to Black Hole Microscopy
The aim of these notes is both to review the standard understanding of the Hawking effect. The fundamentals of the Unruh effect are reviewed, and then the Hawking effect is e…
Jillian's Guide to Black Holes
An informal introduction to types, formation, and environment.
Kerr's Rotating Black Holes.
A brief mathematical description of this phenomenon and diagrams of the mathematical results.
Modern Research by Eduard Westra
Research done about low mass black holes. On the level of 2nd year astronomy students.
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