Jean-Pierre Luminet

Black Holes

Herausgeber: Jean-Pierre, Luminet; Luminet, Jean-Pierre

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fabulous journey through space and time to discover the fascinating truth about the legendary black hole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780521400299
• ISBN-10: 0521400295
• Artikelnr.: 22717508

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the French edition
Foreword to the English edition
Acknowledgements
Part I. Gravitation and Light: 1. First fruits
2. Relativity
3. Curved space-time
Part II. Exquisite Corpses: 4. Chronicle of the twilight years
5. Ashes and diamonds
6. Supernovae
7. Pulsars
8. Gravitation triumphant
Part III. Light Assassinated: 9. The far horizon
10. Illuminations
11. A descent into the maelstrom
12. Map games
13. The black hole machine
14. The quantum black hole
Part IV. Light Regained: 15. Primordial black holes
16. The zoo of X-ray stars
17. Giant black holes
18. Gravitational light
19. The black hole Universe
Appendices
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index.