Title:
Black holes : the key to understanding the universe / Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw.
ISBN:
9780062936691
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Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Mariner Books, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.
Contents:
A brief history of black holes -- Unifying space and time -- Bringing infinity to a finite place -- Warping spacetime -- Into the black hole -- White holes and wormholes -- The Kerr wonderland -- Real black holes from collapsing stars -- Black hole thermodynamics -- Hawking radiation -- Spaghettified and vaporised -- The sound of one hand clapping -- The world as a hologram -- Islands in the stream -- The perfect code.
Summary:
"At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster four million times more massive than the Sun. Within its domain, space and time are so warped that no light escapes. According to Einstein, here lies the end of time. According to twenty-first century physics, the reality may be far more bizarre. Meet the most extraordinary object in the universe: the black hole ... In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw take you to the edge of our understanding of black holes; a scientific journey to the research frontier spanning a century of physics, from Einstein to Hawking and beyond"--Dust jacket flap.
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OCLC Number:
on1370252618
Availability:
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