"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"--
Record details
ISBN:9780374114121 (hc.)
ISBN:0374114129 (hc.)
Physical Description:print 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.