Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2022-09-01
Type: BOOK
In this cosmic tale of discovery, Dr Becky Smethurst takes us from the earliest observations of the universe and the collapse of massive stars, to the iconic first photographs of a black hole and her own published findings.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Type: BOOK
Some of them-like black holes and time machines-are so unthinkable that Einstein himself rejected them. The renowned physicist Kip S. Thorne has been in the thick of the quest.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-09-25
Type: BOOK
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-04-28
Type: BOOK
Bartusiak shows how the black hole helped revive Einstein’s greatest achievement, the general theory of relativity, after decades of languishing in obscurity.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016-05-05
Type: BOOK
Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers.” In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that fascinated him for decades – black holes.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-05
Type: BOOK
Almost one hundred years after general relativity replaced Newton's theory of gravitation, The Curious History of Relativity tells the story of both events surrounding general relativity and the techniques employed by Einstein and the ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-08-28
Type: BOOK
In this book he makes the subject of black holes accessible to any interested reader, who will need no mathematical background. Black holes are the most fascination discovery of modern astronomy.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2019-09-17
Type: BOOK
In Einstein’s Monsters, distinguished astronomer Chris Impey takes readers on a vivid tour of these enigmatic giants.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-04-08
Type: BOOK
"This is a powerfully argued account of the origins and subsequent justification of British rule in India, and an exploration of the response by Bengali elites to colonialism.
Publisher: SIAM
Published: 1972-01-01
Type: BOOK
Acquaints the specialist in relativity theory with some global techniques for the treatment of space-times and will provide the pure mathematician with a way into the subject of general relativity.