Gravity Is As Gravity Does
Gravity, whether it is holding you to the Earth’s surface or swallowing light in a black hole, is the same force obeying the same laws at all places in the observable Universe. We can measure it with this simple lab.

Crossing the Event Horizon
Calculations

Black Hole Activity
To introduce black holes and demonstrate how space telescopes can provide data to support current hypotheses.

A Journey of Discovery with RXTE
In this unit (5 days long using a 90-minute block schedule), students, who take on the role of light curve experts at a fictitious Drew Freeman Research Facility, receive an important bulletin from NASA. A mysterious X-ray source near the Galactic Center has been detected by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. The students collect, graph, and analyze data gathered by one of this satellite's scientific instruments, the All-Sky Monitor (ASM), to determine whether or not this source can be accurately identified as a black hole or a neutron star.

Black Holes
To demonstrate how a black hole might be formed.

The Physics Classroom
Tutorials, animations, sample problems

Aeronautics Related Activities, Experiments, and Lesson Plans

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