Site History

The ``Falling into a Black Hole'' animations on this site were originally made for the finale of a ``Black Holes & Relativity'' show, one of the regular live Evening Star Shows at Fiske Planetarium. The show was first presented in January 1997, and proved to be of unprecedented popularity.

The ``Black Holes & Relativity'' planetarium show itself evolved from a show of the same name constructed, with the help of the Fiske staff, by the students of my APAS 1040 ``Accelerated Introductory Astronomy 2'' class in Spring 1996.

Feb-Mar 1997

Original ``Falling into a Black Hole'' web site constructed.

Mar-Apr 1998

• Movie Index
• Orbiting a Black Hole movie updated to include a probe being fired, once per orbit
• Why hang around in orbit? Take a Dive into the Black Hole
• Try Falling into a Wormhole, or Stabilizing a wormhole with exotic matter
• Hawking Radiation

• Special Relativity web site

• Inside Black Holes web site

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Updated 15 Mar 2010