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Choosing a Black Hole to Research
Entry by Christopher Lau
Currently known black holes can be selected from websites with compiled catalogs of images and data of celestial objects. Galactic coordinates and the classifications of such objects and their distance from the Earth will typically be provided as well. We hope that the resources we used to compile our black hole database will get you interested and make you want to learn more about our amazing and mysterious universe!
Websites with convenient and interactive maps are listed as follows:
TeVCat
Links: http://tevcat2.uchicago.edu or http://tevcat.uchicago.edu
An online catalog of cosmic TeV (teraelectronvolt; essentially high energy) gamma ray emission sources published by Scott Wakely and Deirdre Horan.
Chandra Sky Map
Link: https://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/map/index.html
An online catalog of cosmic X-ray emission sources detected by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
More recent discoveries and new updates can be found in astronomy news websites and observatory news sources.
Some astronomy news websites are listed as follows:
Some observatory news sources are listed as follows:
NASA Hubble News
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Useful Tools
Converting between different coordinate measures, such as Right Ascension and Declination (RA/dec) and Latitude and Longitude (l/b):
Google Sites
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