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- Black Holes What is a black hole and how do we know it exists?(for K-4th graders)
- Black Holes Information about black holes and how we know they exist, links to glossary terms and a movie about a "Journey into a Black hole."
- Falling into a Black Hole Fall into a black hole on a real free fall orbit. All distortions of images are real, both general relativistic from the gravitational bending of light, and special relativistic from the near light speed orbit.
- 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?".
- Jillian's Guide to Black Holes Introduction to the types, formation, and environment inside and outside of black holes.
- No Escape: The Truth about Black Holes Interactive activity designed to teach about black holes.
- The Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy About the 2004 discovery that the center of our galaxy holds a black hole 3.7 million times heavier than the Sun
- HubbleSite - NewsCenter Archive Articles about and photos of black holes.
- 'Death Spiral' Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of Event Horizon Article explains how Hubble telescope has observed the disappearance of matter.
- HubbleSite: Black Holes Presents information on the properties, formation, and location of black holes. Includes an interactive voyage simulator and an encyclopedia of terms.
- Anatomy of A Black Hole Educational sequence suitable for high school students.
- Numerical Relativity Movies Virtual reality and informational movies on black holes. This site is associated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications(NCSA), and is for students in middle school and above.
- Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Here you will find descriptions and MPEG movies that take you on trips to black holes and neutron stars. These movies are scientifically accurate computer animations using Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
- The Space Place: Fall into a Black Hole A printable board game from NASA.
- A Mystery in the Galactic Center A NASA article describing the likelihood that a black hole can be found at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
- 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.