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 naked singularities are summarized.

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?"

Do Black Holes Exist ?
Science popularization article on black holes.

FAQ to SCI.PHYSICS on Black Holes
An FAQ list by Matt McIrvin containing basic questions and answers related to black holes.

General Relativity and Black Holes
A set of notes on aspects of 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 physicist Stephen Hawking who first proposed it.

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