Author: Mitchell Begelman
Publisher: WH Freeman
ISBN: 9780716760290
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
With superb illustrations and photographs, Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, describe how black holes were found and what their existence implies for the evolution of our universe.
Gravity's Fatal Attraction
Author: Mitchell Begelman
Publisher: WH Freeman
ISBN: 9780716760290
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
With superb illustrations and photographs, Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, describe how black holes were found and what their existence implies for the evolution of our universe.
Publisher: WH Freeman
ISBN: 9780716760290
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
With superb illustrations and photographs, Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, describe how black holes were found and what their existence implies for the evolution of our universe.
Gravity's Fatal Attraction
Author: Mitchell Begelman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316139468
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the ground and in space, and computer simulations, this book shows how black holes were discovered, and discusses our current understanding of their role in cosmic evolution. This second edition covers new discoveries made in the past decade, including definitive proof of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way, evidence that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, and the new appreciation of the connection between black holes and galaxy formation. There are entirely new chapters on gamma-ray bursts and cosmic feedback. Begelman and Rees blend theoretical arguments with observational results to demonstrate how both approaches contributed to this subject. Clear illustrations and photographs reveal the strange and amazing workings of our universe. The engaging style makes this book suitable for introductory undergraduate courses, amateur astronomers, and all readers interested in astronomy and physics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316139468
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the ground and in space, and computer simulations, this book shows how black holes were discovered, and discusses our current understanding of their role in cosmic evolution. This second edition covers new discoveries made in the past decade, including definitive proof of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way, evidence that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, and the new appreciation of the connection between black holes and galaxy formation. There are entirely new chapters on gamma-ray bursts and cosmic feedback. Begelman and Rees blend theoretical arguments with observational results to demonstrate how both approaches contributed to this subject. Clear illustrations and photographs reveal the strange and amazing workings of our universe. The engaging style makes this book suitable for introductory undergraduate courses, amateur astronomers, and all readers interested in astronomy and physics.
Gravity' s fatal attraction
Author: Mitchell C. Begelman
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Turn Right At Orion
Author: Mitchell Begelman
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465012167
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This ingenious book is the account of an epic astronomical journey, a tale told by an early-twenty-first-century human sailor among the stars. The account is discovered, as an alien "translator's note" reveals, sixty million years in earth's future -- the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far-distant shores, across a vast ocean of time, in a narrative that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the center of the Milky Way, witness the births and deaths of stars, almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole -- and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose the way things work in the cosmos. A powerful imaginative work that is thoroughly grounded both in history and in the latest in astrophysical thinking and observation, Turn Right at Orion is serious science that reads like fiction.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465012167
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This ingenious book is the account of an epic astronomical journey, a tale told by an early-twenty-first-century human sailor among the stars. The account is discovered, as an alien "translator's note" reveals, sixty million years in earth's future -- the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far-distant shores, across a vast ocean of time, in a narrative that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the center of the Milky Way, witness the births and deaths of stars, almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole -- and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose the way things work in the cosmos. A powerful imaginative work that is thoroughly grounded both in history and in the latest in astrophysical thinking and observation, Turn Right at Orion is serious science that reads like fiction.
Black Holes and Time Warps
Author: Kip S Thorne
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393312768
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Rhorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know what they know? Features an introduction by Stephen Hawking.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393312768
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Rhorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know what they know? Features an introduction by Stephen Hawking.
Gravity's Engines
Author: Caleb Scharf
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374114129
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Offering a sweeping tour of fantastic physics and cosmic history, a view of the most fearsome places in the universe that finally asks what it will take to see the event horizon of a black hole.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374114129
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Offering a sweeping tour of fantastic physics and cosmic history, a view of the most fearsome places in the universe that finally asks what it will take to see the event horizon of a black hole.
Astrophysics for Physicists
Author: Arnab Rai Choudhuri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139486918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Designed for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level, this textbook also provides an overview of astrophysics for astrophysics graduate students, before they delve into more specialized volumes. Assuming background knowledge at the level of a physics major, the textbook develops astrophysics from the basics without requiring any previous study in astronomy or astrophysics. Physical concepts, mathematical derivations and observational data are combined in a balanced way to provide a unified treatment. Topics such as general relativity and plasma physics, which are not usually covered in physics courses but used extensively in astrophysics, are developed from first principles. While the emphasis is on developing the fundamentals thoroughly, recent important discoveries are highlighted at every stage.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139486918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Designed for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level, this textbook also provides an overview of astrophysics for astrophysics graduate students, before they delve into more specialized volumes. Assuming background knowledge at the level of a physics major, the textbook develops astrophysics from the basics without requiring any previous study in astronomy or astrophysics. Physical concepts, mathematical derivations and observational data are combined in a balanced way to provide a unified treatment. Topics such as general relativity and plasma physics, which are not usually covered in physics courses but used extensively in astrophysics, are developed from first principles. While the emphasis is on developing the fundamentals thoroughly, recent important discoveries are highlighted at every stage.
On Space and Time
Author: Alain Connes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107641683
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Gets to the heart of science by asking a fundamental question: what is the true nature of space and time?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107641683
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Gets to the heart of science by asking a fundamental question: what is the true nature of space and time?
Once Before Time
Author: Martin Bojowald
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307474550
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In his introduction to a revolutionary theory of the cosmos, Martin Bojowald shows how the big bang theory may give way to the big bounce theory, which describes our universe as an eternal series of expansions and contractions, with no beginning and no end. In 2000, Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old postdoctoral student at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity—a cunning combination of Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics—to create a simple model of the universe. Loop quantum cosmology, or LQC, was born, and with it, a theory that managed to do something even Einstein’s general theory of relativity had failed to do—illuminate the very birth of the universe.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307474550
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In his introduction to a revolutionary theory of the cosmos, Martin Bojowald shows how the big bang theory may give way to the big bounce theory, which describes our universe as an eternal series of expansions and contractions, with no beginning and no end. In 2000, Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old postdoctoral student at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity—a cunning combination of Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics—to create a simple model of the universe. Loop quantum cosmology, or LQC, was born, and with it, a theory that managed to do something even Einstein’s general theory of relativity had failed to do—illuminate the very birth of the universe.
Numerical Relativity: Starting from Scratch
Author: Thomas W. Baumgarte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108844111
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A pedagogical and accessible introduction to numerical relativity, the key tool to model gravitational waves and black hole mergers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108844111
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A pedagogical and accessible introduction to numerical relativity, the key tool to model gravitational waves and black hole mergers.