References for The Search for Black Holes

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The basic reference through 1993 (when the Hubble telescope was repaired) is the informative and very readable book

Kip Thorne, "Black Holes and Space Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy,"
W.W. Norton, New York,1994.

The websites below--and their nearby links--give a wealth of information from the years since 1993, ranging from technical reports to explanatory captions for photos

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• Figures 1 and 3 (of the galaxy NGC 4261) derive from a large graphic in the STScI archive (see below).
• Figure 2, repair of the Hubble telescope, comes from a larger photograph in an NSSDC archive (see below).
• Figure 4 is "The Starry Night" by van Gogh. Observable are reasonable versions of several galaxies like NGC 4261 and of the colliding flows that produce an x-ray source (used to find black holes in binaries).
• More HST pictures.
  • The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) website is at: http://www.stsci.edu/
  • The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) maintains a comprehensive archive of space photographs at: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
    Its Hubble gallery covers the Earth, planets and their satellites, comets, galaxies, and more.
  • Several of the more spectacular Hubble photos are in the STScI collection
    HST's Greatest Hits.

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