Relativity and Black Hole links

Relativity and Black Hole links:

Dec 2007: Many of the links below are now broken, including several whose passing is definitely regrettable. The need for lists like this has diminished thanks to Google's remarkable search algorithm. Given the web's rapid pace of change, a list can at best be ephemeral unless one spends a lot of time keeping it up to date. I've left this page up for history's sake.

Chris Hillman's Relativity on the World Wide Web is a superb place to start.
Greg Egan's Foundations offers an accessible introduction to relativity.
Spacetime Wrinkles, a relativity exhibit.
Space Telescope Science Institute for pics from Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomy Picture of the Day, such as LMC X-1.
Here or here for art from HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center).
HEASARC's Imagine the Universe educational resource includes information about black holes.
Exosat x-ray images.
Alan Bridle's radio images of Radio Galaxies and Quasars.
Gravitational Lensing Homepage.
Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik Gravitational Lensing Page.
Pete Newbury's gravitational lensing demos.
Movies from the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications).
Michael Owen's High Mass X-Ray Binary Page.
NCSA-Potsdam-Washington University Relativity Page.
Cambridge Relativity Homepage.
Ben Bromley's images of an accretion disk around an extreme Kerr black hole and of a turbulent accretion disk around a black hole.
Menu of art courtesy of the people running the Integral gamma-ray satellite.
Artist's impression of an X-Ray Nova from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
John Walker's C-ship, with images and animations of what it looks like to travel at relativistic speeds (nice idea, beautiful graphics, but the images aren't correct yet - you need to fix this, John Walker) and Interactive Experiments in Gravity, illustrating various aspects of general relativity.
Ted Bunn's Black Hole FAQ.
Robert Nemiroff's Virtual Trips to Black Holes & Neutrons Stars, one of which provided an Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Erk's Relativity pages. Gone fishing?
John Blondin's Black Hole lecture.
Rob Salgado's The Light Cone, an introduction to relativity, with lots of relativity links.
Ned Wright's Relativity Tutorial.
Michael Cramer Andersen's Geometry around Black Holes.
Peter Diener's Particle Trajectories near Black Holes.
Sam Hart's pictures of photons plunging into a black hole.
Gary Felder and Charles Stebbins' Thermodynamics of Black Holes.
Robert Lindsay's Beyond the Event Horizon, which includes some Penrose diagrams of black holes.
Mike Guidry's Introduction to Black Holes, a set of pages based on information provided by the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Jason Hinson's Faster Than Light Travel Page.
Steven DeGennaro's Search for Black Holes class project.
Excerpts from J.-P. Luminet's book “Black Holes”.
René Nusse's Black Holes and Mysteries of the Cosmos.
Scientific American's Hawking-Penrose debate.
Werner Benger's Raytracing Program.
Albert Einstein On Line.
Relativity Groups around the world.
AXAF Science Center.
Catalog of Mechanical Universe educational videos. Videos 41-44 are excellent.
Caltech's Space-Time Lab a Java applet demonstrating spacetime diagrams in Special Relativity.
John G. Cramer's The Alternate View column, published in Analog, covers many relativistic topics, including wormholes, warp drives, and more.
For the intrepid, Paul K. Townsend's Cambridge Tripos Part III lecture notes on Black Holes, available as LaTeX2e source (tar archive), or as a PostScript file.

Andrew Hamilton's Homepage

Falling into a Black Hole

A tour of Special Relativity

Cosmology links

ASTR 3740 Homepage (Spring 2004)

Updated 23 Jan 2004