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Einstein's monsters : the life and times of black holes
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- ISBN: 9780393357509
- ISBN: 0393357503
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xix, 295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-282) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword -- Part A. Evidence for black holes, large and small. The heart of darkness -- Black holes from star death -- Supermassive black holes -- Gravitational engines -- Part B. Black holes, past, present, and future. The lives of black holes -- Black holes as tests of gravity -- Seeing with gravity eyes -- The fate of black holes. |
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| Subject: | Black holes (Astronomy) Popular works Gravitation Popular works |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | QB 843 .B55 I47 2019 | 30775305549918 | General Collection | Available | - |
Einstein`s Monsters : The Life and Times of Black Holes
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Table of Contents
Einstein`s Monsters : The Life and Times of Black Holes
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgments | p. xv | |
| Foreword | p. xvii | |
| Part A | Evidence for Black Holes, Large and Small | p. 1 |
| 1 | The Heart of Darkness | p. 3 |
| An English Clergyman Imagines Dark Stars | p. 3 | |
| A Great French Mathematician Weighs In | p. 5 | |
| Understanding the Fabric of Space-Time | p. 7 | |
| A Singularity and a Life Cut Short | p. 12 | |
| The Master of Implosions and Explosions | p. 14 | |
| Coining the Perfect Term for the Inscrutable | p. 16 | |
| A Genius Struggles with Gravity and Disease | p. 18 | |
| Betting on Black Holes | p. 23 | |
| The Golden Age of Black Hole Theory | p. 26 | |
| 2 | Black Holes from Star Death | p. 30 |
| The Forces of Light and Darkness | p. 30 | |
| Gravity and Darkness Are the Final Victors | p. 33 | |
| Finding the First Black Swan | p. 38 | |
| Weighing the Invisible Dance Partner | p. 40 | |
| Black Holes with Gold-Plated Credentials | p. 43 | |
| Using Gravitational Optics | p. 47 | |
| Physics at the Edge of the Maelstrom | p. 50 | |
| A Tour of the Binary Star Bestiary | p. 54 | |
| 3 | Supermassive Black Holes | p. 57 |
| The Only Radio Astronomer in the World | p. 57 | |
| Galaxies with Bright Nuclei | p. 61 | |
| Radio Astronomy Comes of Age | p. 62 | |
| A Dutch Astronomer Discovers Quasars | p. 68 | |
| Astronomers Harvest Distant Points of Light | p. 71 | |
| Hypothesizing Massive Black Holes | p. 74 | |
| Mapping Radio Jets and Lobes | p. 77 | |
| The Zoo of Active Galaxies | p. 81 | |
| A Matter of Perspective | p. 85 | |
| 4 | Gravitational Engines | p. 88 |
| The Big Black Hole Next Door | p. 89 | |
| Stars at the Edge of the Abyss | p. 93 | |
| The Dark Core in Every Galaxy | p. 95 | |
| Baron Rees of Ludlow Tames the Beast | p. 100 | |
| Using Quasars to Probe the Universe | p. 103 | |
| Weighing Black Holes by the Thousand | p. 106 | |
| Accretion Power in the Cosmos | p. 113 | |
| Massive Black Holes Are Not Scary | p. 116 | |
| Part B | Black Holes, Past, Present, and Future | p. 121 |
| 5 | The Lives of Black Holes | p. 123 |
| Seeds of the Universe | p. 123 | |
| First Light and First Darkness | p. 125 | |
| Black Hole Birth by Stellar Cataclysm | p. 129 | |
| Finding the Missing Links | p. 133 | |
| Simulating Extreme Gravity in a Computer | p. 137 | |
| How Black Holes and Galaxies Grow | p. 143 | |
| The Universe as a Black Hole | p. 148 | |
| Making Black Holes in the Lab | p. 150 | |
| 6 | Black Holes as Tests of Gravity | p. 153 |
| Gravity from Newton to Einstein and Beyond | p. 154 | |
| What Black Holes Do to Space-Time | p. 158 | |
| How Black Holes Affect Radiation | p. 162 | |
| Inside the Iron Curtain | p. 166 | |
| X-Rays Flickering Near the Abyss | p. 168 | |
| When a Black Hole Eats a Star | p. 171 | |
| Taking a Black Hole for a Spin | p. 174 | |
| The Event Horizon Telescope | p. 177 | |
| 7 | Seeing with Gravity Eyes | p. 181 |
| A New Way of Seeing the Universe | p. 181 | |
| Ripples in Space-Time | p. 185 | |
| An Eccentric Millionaire and a Solitary Engineer | p. 188 | |
| When Black Holes Collide | p. 194 | |
| The Most Precise Machine Ever Built | p. 197 | |
| Meet the Maestro of Gravity | p. 204 | |
| Viewing the Universe with Gravity Eyes | p. 207 | |
| Collisions and Mergers of Massive Black Holes | p. 213 | |
| Gravity and the Big Bang | p. 216 | |
| 8 | The Fate of Black Holes | p. 219 |
| The New Age of Gravity | p. 219 | |
| Quasar on Our Doorstep | p. 224 | |
| Merging with Andromeda | p. 227 | |
| The Biggest Black Holes in the Universe | p. 230 | |
| The Era of Stellar Corpses | p. 234 | |
| A Future of Evaporation and Decay | p. 236 | |
| Living with Black Holes | p. 239 | |
| Notes | p. 245 | |
| Index | p. 283 |
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