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Giant Magellan telescope : science book 2018

Tucson, AZ : NOIRLab | 2021

The GMT Science Book focuses on those areas of frontier science best explored with a large aperture ground-based telescope. The book describes the transformative impact that GMT will have on areas spanning observational astrophysics—from exoplan[...]

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The little book of black holes

Steven Scott Gubser, Author ; Frans Pretorius, Author | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | 2017

Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were ma[...]

Black hole blues : and other songs from outer space /

Janna Levin, Author | New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC | 2016

"In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts [...]

Introduction to black hole physics

V. P. Frolov, Author ; Andrei Zelnikov, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2011

This self-contained textbook combines physical, mathematical, and astrophysical aspects of black hole theory. Pedagogically presented, it contains 'standard' material on black holes as well as relatively new subjects such as the role of hidden s[...]

The big bang : a view from the 21st century

David M. Harland | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences | 2003

Flash! : the hunt for the biggest explosions in the unierse

Govert Schilling | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2002

Black holes, wormholes & time machines

Jim Al-Khalili, Author | [S.l.] : Institute of Physics Publishing | 1999

Albert Einstein revolutionized our view of the Universe. His first was that nothing can travel faster than light-the ultimate speed limit. This simple fact leads to the unavoidable conclusion that space and time must be linked together forever [...]

Black holes and time warps : Einstein's outrageous legacy /

Kip S. Thorne, Author | [S.l.] : W. W. Norton & Company | The Commonwealth Fund Book Program | 1994

"Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects th[...]

Black holes and the universe

Igor Nobikov | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 1990