A little help here with black holes

[hytech]

Well I'm a senior in high school have an independent study to finish for my physics class.
I have started my research, however I am still needing to know how I am going to pull a good 10 pages of information from this project (which is how many the teacher is asking for). I just need to know things to include in my research to really make a good project. Any help would be appreciated.

Also one last thing, if anyone can recommend some books about black holes (because I need to have 2 to make reference to), that would also make me a happy camper.

 

[JaredJames]

Well I'd suggest you read through the wiki page as it will give you plenty of details.

Are you focussing on any specific details or is it just a simple overview of the topic?

Regardless, there is plenty of info available on PF (do a quick search) or through wiki / Google to keep you occupied for well over 10 pages.

 

[hytech]

Its just a general overview. What I was looking for was someone to to say something like: "Make sure to include ____" or something around those means.

 

[JaredJames]

Well start with what a black hole is. I reckon you could get a good page out of describing what they are and how they form.

Then discuss the gravity, its effects and reference the event horizon. That should give you another page at least.

Then perhaps bring our sun into it, discuss why it can't become a black hole and what size its event horizon it would have if it was a black hole (I believe it's around 3km). Plus talk about other stars, minimum size for a star to become one.

A bit on super-massive black holes wouldn't go amiss.

Different types (rotating and stationary).

 

[Dick]

Don't miss quantum stuff like Hawking radiation and black hole decay. Issues about unitarity violation. (Does what falls into a black hole matter in terms of what comes out when it decays?). There's primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate. This is just first thoughts. There's tons of stuff.

 

[JaredJames]

Don't miss quantum stuff like Hawking radiation and black hole decay. Issues about unitarity violation. (Does what falls into a black hole matter in terms of what comes out when it decays?). There's primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate. This is just first thoughts. There's tons of stuff.

I tried to avoid anything too 'heavy' as I'm British and not sure what a High School senior level is like. But if possible, I would include some of this.

 

[Dick]

I tried to avoid anything too 'heavy' as I'm British and not sure what a High School senior level is like. But if possible, I would include some of this.

Sure but Stephen Hawking sells well here even in the Colonies, in the popular press. I'm not completely sure why. Hawking entered into a famous bet about the information paradox and lost. That's dramatic. Makes good copy. Look it up hytech. BTW, nice kitty!