Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos /

Scharf, Caleb A., 1968-

Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos / Caleb Scharf. - 1st ed. - New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. - ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239) and index.

"Offering a sweeping tour of fantastic physics and cosmic history, Gravity's Engines provides a view of the most fearsome places in the universe, and finally asks what it will take to see the event horizon of a black hole"--

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Black holes (Astronomy)
Gravity.
Cosmology.
SCIENCE / Cosmology.
SCIENCE / Astrophysics & Space Science.

QB843.B55 / S33 2012

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