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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.
Gravitational Redshift An overview of the effects on light in the presence of a black hole.
The Net Advance of Physics: Black Holes A set of links to numerous black holes resources on the Web. A great starting point to finding some advanced papers on the topic.
About Astronomy and Space - Black Holes Find articles, information, and web sites about these theoretical cellestial objects, formed when a massive star collapses from its own gravity.
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.
Higher Dimensional Chern-Simons Theories and Topological Black Holes It has been recently pointed out that black holes of constant curvature with a "chronological singularity" can be constructed in any spacetime dimension. In this paper, a brief summary of these new black holes is given.
Quantum Geometry and Black Holes Non-perturbative quantum general relativity provides a possible framework to analyze issues related to black hole thermodynamics from a fundamental perspective.
Introduction to Black Hole Microscopy The aim of these notes is both to review the standard understanding of the Hawking effect. The fundamentals of the Unruh effect are reviewed, and then the Hawking effect is explained as a ``gravitational Unruh effect".
Quantum Fields Near Black Holes This review gives an introduction into problems, concepts and techniques when quantizing matter fields near black holes.
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.
Spacetime Geometry Inside a Black Hole After introducing general relativity theory, black holes are described. The reader is assumed to know calculus and some special relativity theory.
