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Images
Other resources related to black holes
Other resources from STScI
Other resources available outside STScI
Customize your lesson! Below you will find the images and icons used in the lesson to create your own interactive lesson(s) and overhead transparencies.
| Description of Image | File |
|---|---|
| Gas jets (artist's illustration) | 2anatomy.jpg |
| Hubble image of a suspected black hole | 9814a1.jpg |
| Black hole (artist's illustration) | bhole3.jpg |
| Big Bang (artist's illustration) | bigbang.jpg |
| Hubble spectrographic images of a black hole's gas jets | firework.jpg |
| Photo of the Hubble Space Telescope | hubble-earth.jpg |
| Hubble image of a supermassive black hole | ngc4261.jpg |
| Hubble image of a galactic gas jet | ngc4486.jpg |
| Hubble image of a galaxy's center | ngc6251-crop.jpg |
| Stellar black hole (artist's illustration) | stellar-binary.jpg |
| Hubble spectrographic image of a black hole's "signature" | stis.jpg |
| Hubble image of a galaxy's center | 9814.jpg |
| Hubble image of a galaxy's center (smaller graphic than above) | 9814a1.jpg |
| Big Bang (artist's illustration) | bigbang2.jpg |
| Black hole animation | blackhole-full.mov |
| Black hole animation (smaller animation than above) | blackhole-thumb.mov |
| "Fact" navigation button | fact.gif |
| "Myth" navigation button | myth.gif |
| Hubble image of the galaxy M84 nucleus | m84stis.jpg |
| Big Bang (artist's illustration, smaller than above) | micro1.JPG |
| Hubble image of a suspected black hole | Ngc4486.jpg |
| Hubble image of galaxy NGC6251 | ngc6251.jpg |
| Hubble image of galaxy NGC7742 | NGC7742.jpg |
| Graphic of Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "A Descent into the Maelstrom" | poem.jpg |
| Hubble image of Milky Way Star Field | sgr1.jpg |
| "Black Hole Images" graphic | signature.jpg |
| "OK" navigation button | splash-img.jpg |
| "Hubble Space Telescope STIS FOC WFPC2" graphic | splash-inst.jpg |
| Stellar black hole (artist's illustration) | stellar1.JPG |
| Stellar black hole (artist's illustration, larger than above) | stellar2.jpg |
| SOHO image of the Sun | sun-small.jpg |
| Hubble image of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy NGC 4261 | Superm1.jpg |
| Hubble image of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy NGC 4261 compared with the ground-based image of same | supermass2.jpg |
| Divider bar | redbar.gif |
| "OK" navigation button (smaller than above) | small_ok.gif |
| Dante quote, "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here" | dante.gif |
| Graphic of teachers getting crammed into a VW Bug | vw.jpg |
| Star graphic that is the background of the lesson | stars.gif |
Other resources related to black holes:
One of the unique features of using the World Wide Web is the ability to move quickly and easily to other links of related topics. If you find an appropriate related link, don't forget to bookmark it for later use. These related links can play an important role in enhancing your lesson by using them to gather more information for a research topic, using them to learn the latest current events information, and helping to introduce or follow up a specific lesson module.
Web pages from STScI or outside STScI related to the topic of gravity and black holes:
Hubble Finds a New Black Hole — and Unexpected Mysteries. Photograph and caption available. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/95/47.html
Black Hole Candidate: Victim of Mistaken Identity. Photograph and caption available. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/96/aas96sum.html
Massive Black Holes Dwell in Most Galaxies, According to Hubble Census. Photograph and caption available. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/97/01.html
STIS Records a Black Hole's Signature. Photograph and caption available. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/97/12.html
Fireworks in a Black Hole Near the Core of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151. Photograph and caption available. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/97/18.html
Hubble Finds a Bare Black Hole Pouring Out Light. Photograph and caption available. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/97/28.html
Information about galactic black holes. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/active_galaxies.html
Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
Falling into a Black Hole. http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
Classical and Relativistic Trip to a Black Hole. http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/classroom/activity4.html
Answers to Black-Hole-Related Questions from Dr. Mario Livio, STScI. http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/experts/week2a.html
Frequently Asked Questions About Black Holes — maintained by Dr. John Simonetti of the Department of Physics at Virginia Tech. http://www.phys.vt.edu/~astrophy/faq/blackholes.html
Black Holes FAQ List — maintained by Ted Bunn of the UC Berkeley Physics Department. http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html
Other resources available at STScI:
Hubble Space Telescope Images by Subject: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/subject.html
About HST — Read about the science instruments and mission operations of the Hubble Space Telescope: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/
Where is HST Right Now? — Find out the current orbital position of the Hubble Telescope:. http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/Jtrack/welcome.html
Education Resources and Information at STScI — This site shows how and where to get materials for classroom use: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/edugroup/resources.html
Learn about the ORIGINS Forum: http://origins.stsci.edu/
Other resources available outside STScI:
Below you will find a vast amount of information regarding the topic of black holes. The information comes from many sources other than STScI.
Some of the resources are quite in-depth, and it is easy to get lost. It is suggested that you bookmark this page before you examine each source. That way, should you get lost, you can simply use the bookmark to get you back to the main page.
Technical Overview of the Hubble Space Telescope — Information, observational data, and images can be found at the Hubble Project http://hubble.nasa.gov/
Astronomy Picture of the Day - November 27, 1995: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951127.html
All About Hubble: http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/hubble/index.html
Gravity and Black Holes: Astronomy Connections. Who would you pick to send on a voyage to a black hole?: http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/education/ac/gravity/9_12/gq6-1.shtml
NASA's home page: http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA's Spacelink — NASA's web site for educators: http://spacelink.nasa.gov/.index.html
Other astronomy links: http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/links.html
