Imagine Science: Black Holes - A service of the High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center. A nice introduction to black holes. Intended for ages 14 and up.
Falling into a Black Hole - This is a website that describes the geometry of a black hole and what would happen if one were to fall into one.
Relativity Tutorial - an illustrated introductory guide to relativity
skinny monkey takes a look at black holes - a brief overview of black holes - the maths that allows and describes them, their formation, and their weird properties.
Black Holes - A one hour lecture given to senior liberal arts students on the concepts surrounding black holes
Black Holes - Basic ideas and descriptions of what black holes are and if white holes exist.
Big Bang - A book outlining the Yilmaz refinement of Einstein's theory which eliminates black holes and the big bang.
Black Holes, Mysterious Objects in Space - Elementary information about black holes, including how they are observed, what happens to particles entering one, and a description of their close relatives, neutron stars.
How Stuff Works: How Black Holes Work - What are black holes? Do they really exist? How can we find them?
A Black Hole on the Desk - By putting a black hole into a familiar environment like a desk, one may experience what `curvature of space' means in a new way, understanding the cosmological effects of light bending and gravitational lenses from this playground.
Geometry Around Black Holes - A very basic web site on the geometry of black holes and what they would theoretically look like in space time.
Black Holes - Lecture notes for a course on Black Holes given at Cambridge. The course covers some of the developments in Black Hole physics of the 1960s and 1970s.
Black Hole FAQ - Loosely speaking, a black hole is a region of space that has so much mass concentrated in it that there is no way for a nearby object to escape its gravitational pull
Anatomy of A Black Hole - From the University of Illinois. Educational sequence suitable for high school students.
A Black Hole FAQ - A good list of FAQ questions with detailed answers.
Black Holes to Blackboards-God Divided by Zero - Laying your hands on a black hole is hard (and dangerous) to do, but there are ways to understand these objects and avoid the pain of dimension-bending.
Black Holes: General Information - Provides information on black holes.
XMM: Black Holes and Quasars - Educational site on the Birmingham Uni XMM website.
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