Dr. Jean-Pierre Luminet makes the subject of black holes accessible to any interested reader, who will need no mathematical background. The reader of this book will feel that the developments in modern astrophysics are as fascinating to discover and digest as the most fantastic science fiction novels. While answering such questions, the author takes us on a fabulous journey through space and time. We travel into the realms of supernovae, X-ray stars and quasars--a journey to the very edge of the universe and to the limits of contemporary physics.
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"This is an outstanding work of scientific exposition that can be recommended as a manifestation of the dictum that common sense often leads to surprises and the modest goal of science is simply to make such surprises just a little less frequent." John D. Barrow, Nature
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The Greek philosophers, still unsurpassed in many domains of intellectual thought, had very little understanding of gravitation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gravitational light, central singularity, stellar black holes, spherical black hole, mini black holes, exterior universe, giant black holes, accretion disc, rotating black hole, embedding surface, primordial black holes, compact star, secondary star, event horizon, active nuclei, black hole universe, globular clusters, white hole, galactic nuclei, gravitational waves, gravitational collapse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Relativity, Special Relativity, Solar System, Galactic Centre, Principle of Equivalence, Milky Way, Big Bang, Uncertainty Principle, Albert Einstein, Large Magellanic Cloud, Crab Nebula, John Wheeler, Arthur Eddington, Max Planck, Roger Penrose, Space Figure, Stephen Hawking, Yang Wei-T'e, Edgar Allan Poe, Epsilon Aurigae, Tycho Brahe, University of Cambridge New!
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The Greek philosophers, still unsurpassed in many domains of intellectual thought, had very little understanding of gravitation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gravitational light, central singularity, stellar black holes, spherical black hole, mini black holes, exterior universe, giant black holes, accretion disc, rotating black hole, embedding surface, primordial black holes, compact star, secondary star, event horizon, active nuclei, black hole universe, globular clusters, white hole, galactic nuclei, gravitational waves, gravitational collapse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Relativity, Special Relativity, Solar System, Galactic Centre, Principle of Equivalence, Milky Way, Big Bang, Uncertainty Principle, Albert Einstein, Large Magellanic Cloud, Crab Nebula, John Wheeler, Arthur Eddington, Max Planck, Roger Penrose, Space Figure, Stephen Hawking, Yang Wei-T'e, Edgar Allan Poe, Epsilon Aurigae, Tycho Brahe, University of Cambridge New!
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- The Ultimate Fate of the Universe by Jamal N. Islam on page 297, and Back Matter
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Special Relativity (The M.I.T. Introductory Physics Series) by A.P. French on page 183
- The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco in Front Matter
- Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution by Hubert Reeves in Back Matter
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- Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy by C.C. Gaither on 8 pages
- Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space by Marc Lachièze-Rey on 5 pages
- Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide by Clifford A. Pickover on 5 pages
- Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations by C.C. Gaither on 4 pages
- Black Holes: Theory and Observation: Proceedings of the 179th W.E. Heraeus Seminar Held at Bad Honnef, Germany, 18-22 August 1997 (Lecture Notes in Physics) by Friedrich W. Hehl on 4 pages
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