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The little book of black holes /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The little book of black holes // Steven S. Gubser & Frans Pretorius
作者:	Gubser, Steven Scott,
其他作者:	Pretorius, Frans,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource :illustrations :
標題:	Black holes (Astronomy) -
電子資源:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0006072.html
ISBN:	9781400888290

The little book of black holes /
Gubser, Steven Scott,1972-

The little book of black holes /Steven S. Gubser & Frans Pretorius - 1 online resource :illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

Special relativity -- General relativity -- The Schwarzschild black hole -- Spinning black holes -- Black holes in the universe -- Black hole collisions -- Black hole thermodynamics

Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holesBlack 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 mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality—a viewpoint many shared. This all changed in the 1960s and 1970s, when a deeper conceptual understanding of black holes developed just as new observations revealed the existence of quasars and X-ray binary star systems, whose mysterious properties could be explained by the presence of black holes. Black holes have since been the subject of intense research—and the physics governing how they behave and affect their surroundings is stranger and more mind-bending than any fiction

ISBN: 9781400888290Subjects--Topical Terms:

672993
Black holes (Astronomy)
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

761329
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: QB843.B55 / G83 2017eb

Dewey Class. No.: 523.8/875

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520 $a The Little Book of Black Holes takes readers deep into the mysterious heart of the subject, offering rare clarity of insight into the physics that makes black holes simple yet destructive manifestations of geometric destiny
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