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Topic: Research Focus What is your topic? My topic was black holes. State the focus of your research: I maily had just a general overview of the topic. Notes
Include notes, statistics and facts that you will use to write your final paper. You may want to label sections of your notes to help you be more organized as you write. As you take notes from a source, you should list the source citation in the Works Cited section above.
- A black hole is the remains of a massive star that has used up all of its nuclear fule
- Lacking energy to combat the force of its own gravity, the star compresses or shrink in size to a single dimesnsional piont called singularity. At this point the pressure and the density become infinately large.
- Any object that gets too close to a black hole is pulled in forever
- Black holes, so named by American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler in 1969
- Black holes were first thought of by Pierre S. Laplace and John Mitchell
- The first possible black hole came from the star Cygnys
- Black holes probably exist in every galexy
- The biggest are at the center of the galexies, thesse have masses up to 1 billion stars
- The hubble telescope can relay on black holes
- Black holes give off lots of x-ray light
- Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return. It is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body
- Black holes can be big or small. Scientists think the smallest black holes are as small as just one atom.
- Super Novas make medium sized black holes or stellar black holes.
- Since nothing is faster than light and black holes can pull in light, nothing can escape a black hole.
- A stellar black hole is only likely to result from a heavyweight star.
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Pierre Laplace
(1749 - 1827)
Works Cited
Sources: Include the source information for all of the magazine articles, reference sources (encyclopedias) and web site pages that were used to complete your project. The source information for encyclopedias may be found at the end or beginning of each entry in iCONN. When using periodicals, the publication information will be at the beginning or end of the article. This needs to be formatted for MLA standards. If it is not labeled 'Source Citation' it can be formatted appropriately by using EasyBib.com. You should use EasyBib for the web sites. The final Works Cited should be listed in alphabetical order by the first word of the source citation.
Sample:
"Milky Way." Kids InfoBits Presents: Astronomy. Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012.
"The Milky Way." WMAP's Universe. NASA, 28 June 2010. Web. 06 Mar. 2012. <http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/rel_milkyway.html>.
Vergano, Dan. "Galaxy Bracketed by Big Bubbles." USA Today 10 Nov. 2010: 05A. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.
Your Source List: "Black hole." U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science. U*X*L, 2009. Gale Science In Context. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.
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Copyright © 2012 Discovery Communications, LLC. The number-one nonfiction media company.(video 1 & 2)
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/scic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=true&prodId=SCIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCV2644300174&mode=view
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/how-the-universe-works-black-holes/
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html
Heather R. Smith
Ted Bunn
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.htmlhttp://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/B/blackhole.html
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http://www.nrao.edu/index.php/learn/science/blackholes
http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/229416/view
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/John_Mitchell_(Irish_Nationalist).jpg
Topic: Research Focus
What is your topic? My topic was black holes.
State the focus of your research: I maily had just a general overview of the topic.
Notes
- A black hole is the remains of a massive star that has used up all of its nuclear fule
- Lacking energy to combat the force of its own gravity, the star compresses or shrink in size to a single dimesnsional piont called singularity. At this point the pressure and the density become infinately large.
- Any object that gets too close to a black hole is pulled in forever
- Black holes, so named by American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler in 1969
- Black holes were first thought of by Pierre S. Laplace and John Mitchell
- The first possible black hole came from the star Cygnys
- Black holes probably exist in every galexy
- The biggest are at the center of the galexies, thesse have masses up to 1 billion stars
- The hubble telescope can relay on black holes
- Black holes give off lots of x-ray light
- Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return. It is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body
- Black holes can be big or small. Scientists think the smallest black holes are as small as just one atom.
- Super Novas make medium sized black holes or stellar black holes.
- Since nothing is faster than light and black holes can pull in light, nothing can escape a black hole.
- A stellar black hole is only likely to result from a heavyweight star.