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The following websites and links may have useful information:

Black Holes

Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull

- From Hubblesite

Stellar-mass Black holes

- from NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

Black Hole Encyclopedia

- StarDate: McDonald Observatory, NASA, and the National Science Foundation.

Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes

- The SXS project is a collaborative research effort involving groups at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University. Their goal is the simulation of black holes and other extreme spacetimes to gain a better understanding of Relativity, and the physics of exotic objects in the distant cosmos.

Gravitational Waves

On the Edge: Gravitational Waves

- from NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Waves

- from Physics Central, American Physical Society

Gravitational Waves: Ripples in the Fabric of Space-time

- from the Livingston Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

Introduction to LIGO and Gravitational Waves

- from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Einstein At Home

- Their long-term goal is to make the first direct detections of gravitational-wave emissions from spinning neutron stars.

Center for Gravitational Wave Physics: Education and Public Outreach

- from Pennsylvania State University

Relativity

Describing How Mass Warps Spacetime

- from Michael Boyle's SXS project

Relativity

- from the physics education pages of the offical web site of the Nobel Prize.

Astronomy News

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory


• Sky and Telescope

Academic Integrity

Resources for Students

- Links to Understanding Academic Integrity, Writing Resources, Research skills, etc. at the Academic Integrity at the University of Toronto site

Student Academic Integrity

- Information for students from the UofT Faculty of Arts and Sciences about how to act with academic integrity, the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters, and the processes by which allegations of academic misconduct are resolved.

How not to plagiarize

- From Writing at the University of Toronto.