Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos / Caleb Scharf.
"Offering a sweeping tour of fantastic physics and cosmic history, Gravity's Engines provides a view of the most fearsome places in the universe, and finally asks what it will take to see the event horizon of a black hole"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780374114121 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0374114129 (hc.)
- Physical Description: ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Scientific American/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Dark star -- A map of forever -- One hundred billion ways to the bottom -- The feeding habits of nonillion-pound gorillas -- bubbles -- A distant siren -- Origins : part I -- Origins : part II -- There is grandeur. |
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Subject: | Black holes (Astronomy) Gravity. Cosmology. |
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