Cover image for Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos / Caleb Scharf.
TITLE:
Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos / Caleb Scharf.
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Scientific American/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Physical Description:
ix, 252 p. : ill, charts.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780374114121
General Note:
Includes index.