Public Event
Celebrate Black Hole Week With NASA
When:
Monday, May 6 - Friday, May 10Where:
Online (see event details)Target Audience:
General PublicOverview:
Join NASA in celebrating the mystery and wonder of black holes during Black Hole Week from May 6-10. Follow along with @NASAUniverse on X and Facebook to learn fun facts, see cool images and videos, read about the latest black hole discoveries and more! Plus visit NASA's Black Holes site to learn more about these fascinating cosmic features.
Teachers, find out how you can get students engaged in STEM learning related to the science of black holes at the links below.
Education Resources
Articles
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Teachable Moments: How Scientists Captured the First Image of a Black Hole
Find out how scientists created a virtual telescope as large as Earth itself to capture the first image of a black hole's silhouette.
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Teachable Moments: Telescopes Get Extraordinary View of Milky Way's Black Hole
Find out how scientists captured the first image of Sagittarius A*, why it's important, and how to turn it into a learning opportunity for students.
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Teachable Moments: X-Ray Vision and Polarized Glasses Unite to Uncover Mysteries of the Universe
A NASA space telescope mission is giving astronomers a whole new way to peer into the universe, allowing us to uncover long-standing mysteries surrounding objects such as black holes.
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Teachable Moments: Webb Telescope Sees the Universe Like We've Never Seen It Before
Here's what we learned from the first set of images captured by NASA's newest space observatory and how to translate it into learning opportunities for students.
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Teachable Moments: Learn About the Universe With the James Webb Space Telescope
Get a look into the science and engineering behind the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built while exploring ways to engage learners in the mission.
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Teachable Moments: Gravitational Waves Detected for the First Time
Find out how researchers proved part of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, then create a model of the Nobel Prize-winning experiment in the classroom.
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JPL Education ‘Teachable Moment’ Inspires Winning Science Fair Project
A “teachable moment” turned into a science fair win for an eighth-grader in Ontario, Canada, who based his project on a classroom activity from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Edu NewsSpend the School Year With NASA - May
Make educational connections to NASA and JPL happenings all year long with this calendar of upcoming events and links to educational resources you can use to explore STEM with us.
Educator Guides
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Dropping In With Gravitational Waves
Students develop a model to represent gravitational waves and their propagation through spacetime.
Subject Science
Grades 6-8
Time 30 mins - 1 hr
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Modeling the Orbits of Planets
Students use a planar model of a gravity well to create different orbital configurations around a central mass.
Subject Science
Grades 6-12
Time 30 mins - 1 hr
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How Do We See Dark Matter?
Students will make observations of two containers and identify differences in content, justify their claims and make comparisons to dark matter observations.
Subject Science
Grades 6-12
Time < 30 mins
Student Activities
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Video: What Is a Black Hole?
Find out how what a black hole is, how they can form and why they are so cool!
Subject Science
Grades 4-8
Time Less than 30 mins
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Black Holes: By the Numbers
What are black holes and how do they form?
Subject Science
Grades 4-12
Time Less than 30 mins
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10 Things We Can Learn from Webb's First Images
Take a closer look at how images from NASA's most powerful space telescope yet are helping to answer some of astronomers' most burning questions.
Subject Science
Time Less than 30 mins
Across the NASA-Verse
- NASA Website - Black Holes
- JPL News: Black Hole Image Makes History
- Graphic: Anatomy of a Black Hole
Check out these related resources for students from NASA’s Space Place