Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos /
Scharf, Caleb A., 1968-
Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos / Caleb Scharf. - New York : Scientific American/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. - ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239) and index.
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.
"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"--
0374114129 (hardback) 9780374114121 (hardback)
2011047089
016098534 Uk
Black holes (Astronomy)
Cosmology.
Gravity.
Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos / Caleb Scharf. - New York : Scientific American/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. - ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239) and index.
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.
"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"--
0374114129 (hardback) 9780374114121 (hardback)
2011047089
016098534 Uk
Black holes (Astronomy)
Cosmology.
Gravity.