ISBN:

• 9781588347893 (hardcover)
• 9781588347893

Description: x, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• From Newton to Einstein
• Is gravity really a force?
• The birth of black holes
• Do black holes really exist?
• The first stellar black hole
• Searching for the center
• The monster at the heart of the galaxy
• Monsters everywhere
• The black hole paradigm
• Quasars
• Gravitational waves
• Pulsars
• The cosmic hum
• Dark matter searches
• Black holes in a quantum world
• Black holes, quantum gravity, and all that
• The information paradox
• The singularity
• Supermassives and the big bang
• Telescopes in orbit
• The end of the universe.

LCCN: 2024044072

Control Number: 3340095

Subjects: Black holes (Astronomy)

Other Authors: Satyapal, Shobita, 1966- author.