Black holes are the evolutionary endpoints of stars at least 10 to 15 times as massive as the Sun. If a star that massive or larger undergoes a supernova explosion, it may leave behind a fairly massive burned out stellar remnant.
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/black_holes.... imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/black_holes.html
Introduction to Black Holes ... Black holes are objects so dense that not even light can escape their gravity, and since nothing can travel faster than light, nothing can escape from inside a black hole. On the other hand, a black hole exerts the same force on something far away from it as any other object of the same...
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Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull. Information, virtual journeys, and simulations about black holes from the Space Telescope Science Institute ... The Intro Movie of the Web site "Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull" requires the Flash plug-in. The same is true for many subsequent pages of the Web site.
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Pages by the relativity group at Cambridge University, aimed at a general audience. ... Introduction to black holes ... Observational evidence for black holes...
www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bh_home.html
Black hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In general relativity, a black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape. The black hole has a one-way surface, called an eve...
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You may have heard someone say, "My desk has become a black hole!" You may have seen an astronomy program on television or read a magazine article on black holes. These exotic objects have captured our imagination ever since the...
http://www.howstuffworks.com/black-hole.htm
No Escape: The Truth About Black Holes ... The following information is provided to give the teacher some additional knowledge about the effect of gravity and black holes. This material can be used to inspire research topics for students or to encourage class discussion.
amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/blackhol... amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/blackholes/teacher/sciencebackground.html
Descriptions and MPEG movies based on general relativistic simulations of black holes: What will an observer see close to a black hole, or in the neighborhood of a neutron star? Simulations and pages created by Robert Nemiroff (Michigan Technological University ... Ever wonder what it would look like to travel to a black hole?
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In which we 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. ... Charged Black Holes: The Reissner-Nordström Geometry...
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