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Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos Cover Image Book Book

Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos

Scharf, Caleb A. 1968- (Author).

Summary: "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"--

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  • 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.

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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)
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