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019 _a802248129
020 _a0374114129 (hardback)
020 _a9780374114121 (hardback)
035 _a(OCoLC)760970575
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040 _aDLC
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049 _aNFGA
092 _a523.8875
_bS311
100 1 _aScharf, Caleb A.,
_d1968-
_9213946
245 1 0 _aGravity's engines :
_bhow bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos /
_cCaleb Scharf.
260 _aNew York :
_bScientific American/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2012.
300 _aix, 252 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239) and index.
505 0 _aDark 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aBlack holes (Astronomy)
_939944
650 0 _aCosmology.
_926736
650 0 _aGravity.
_9172140
942 _cBOOK
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994 _aC0
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998 _a007201950
999 _c134264
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