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Why don't you do one on the history of relativity? I mean, there's tones of information available AND it's really, really interesting. Lot's of people incorrectly think relativity is 'old hat', or perhaps a 'done deal', or worse, that it's boring, it's not. Very few people know the real history.
There are so many ‘unsung heroes and contributors which are very interesting in both what were thinking and what they found, as well as how they went about it. Einstein’s role, although significant, was not ‘Pat Malone’.
I guarantee you, it will educate you no end.
You can start at Aristotle, and then follow the path of Galileo, Newton, Euler, Gauss, Riemann (my favorite!), Maxwell, Lorentz & FitzGerald, Michelson & Morley, Minkowski, Christoffel, Ricci-Curbastro & Levi-Civita, Hilbert, and end with Einstein.
To be totally honest with you-you should already know who all these people are and their contributions intimately, if you were to tackle Black Holes, because Black Holes were theorized through the theories and studies of SR & GR, they were not discovers through direct observation.
Although Black Holes are interesting and exciting in their own right, the murder-mystery-thriller of the evolution of relativity is far more amazing!
Did you know that when Gauss’s servant came into his study to inform him that his wife was dying, he replied, “tell her to wait a moment-I’m in the middle of something”? Did you know that Riemann didn’t die of Tuberculosis, he committed suicide; believing his theorems were leading science down a dead-end he fell into depression? Did you know Einstein had at least one nervous break-down and that Hilbert gave him assistance with the final piece of GR, the field equations, even though Hilbert was about to publish his own [correct] version of GR? Did you know that not one of Aristotle’s questions on the nature of the world has been answered, and we’re not even close?
And you can put as much math with the history of relativity as you like; it's all there and in varying degree of complexity.
Just my perspective.
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