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- Black Holes - Lecture notes for Paul K. Townsend's course on Black holes at Cambridge University. Covers the basics of black hole physics, the mechanics of black holes, and related geometrical concepts at a level suitable for advanced physics students.
- Black Hole FAQ - Answers to black hole questions like "How big is a black hole?" ,"How do black holes evaporate?", and "What is a wormhole?".
- Black Holes - Basic ideas and descriptions of what black holes are and if white holes exist.
- Ask a High-Energy Astronomer: Black Holes - Commonly-asked questions, and a way to ask an astronomer a question about black holes.
- Black hole images at APOD - From NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" archive, the three most educational images (editor's choice) related to black holes.
- The Thermodyanmics of Black Holes - This review includes discussion of classical black hole thermodynamics, Hawking radiation from black holes, the generalized second law, and the issue of entropy bounds.
- Geometry around black holes - Web exhibition with visualizations of various properties of both Schwarzschild black holes and rotating (Kerr) black holes, such as curvature, light cones, and the gravitational frequency shift, produced by the Danish physics student Michael Cramer Andersen.
- 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.
- Jillian's Guide to Black Holes - Introduction to the types, formation, and environment inside and outside of black holes.
- Ted Bunn's Black Hole FAQ - List of questions that explore the basic properties of black holes (such as what happens when you fall in, or how a black hole evaporates).
Wikipedia Articles
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays - Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays is a popular science book by Professor Stephen Hawking. It is a collection of both introductory and technical lectures on the topic "Black Holes Thermodyanmics" but also includes descriptions on Special Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
- Intermediate-mass black hole - An Intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) is a black hole whose mass is significantly more than stellar black holes (a few tens of the mass of the Sun) yet far less than supermassive black holes (a few millions of the mass of the Sun).
- Black Holes and Time Warps - Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (1994) is a popular science book by Kip Thorne. It provides a good illustrated overview of the history and development of black hole theory up until the early 1990s.
- Rotating black hole - A rotating black hole (Kerr black hole or Kerr-Newman black hole) is a black hole that possesses angular momentum. It is one of four possible types of black holes that could exist in the theory of gravitation called General Relativity.
- Fuzzballs - Fuzzballs (also called Stringy stars) are conjectured by some string theorists to be the true quantum description of black holes. The proposal is that string theory would resolve two major problems of classical black holes - the singularity of infinite space-time curvature, and the missing multiplicity of states to account for Black Hole Entropy - by replacing the usual black hole interior by complicated (or fuzzy) spacetimes reacting ...