Educational use of the information by private individuals or schools is encouraged. 19990513 High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center Includes information on supernovas, X-ray binaries, black holes and the research programme. Text of a lecture by the physicist Stephen Hawking, in which he discusses the connection between black holes and entropy, the quantitative measure of the relative disorder of a system. 19990305 NSF Metacenter Science Highlights Multimedia collection containing descriptions of some of the 10,000 scientific research projects that have used the resources of National Science Foundation supercomputing centres. The reports range from astronomy to zoology, and include scientific breakthroughs on black holes, how the heart works, pollution control, and modelling the oceans.
All reports have images, and many are accompanied by animations and sound.
20001209 Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Descriptions and MPEG animations that simulate travel to black holes and neutron stars. These movies are scientifically accurate computer animations made with strict adherence to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The descriptions are written to be understandable on a variety of levels.