Full title: Black hole : how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved / Marcia Bartusiak.

Author/creator: Bartusiak, Marcia, 1950-.

Call Numbers: G 2016/309

Record Identifier: 74VKzKpwdPzy

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm., , , , It is therefore possible that the largest luminous bodies in the universe may be invisible -- Newton, forgive me -- One would then find oneself ... in a geometrical fairyland -- There should be a law of nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way! -- I'll show those bastards -- Only its gravitational field persists -- I could not have picked a more exciting time in which to become a physicist -- It was the weirdest spectrum I'd ever seen -- Why don't you call it a black hole? -- Medieval torture rack -- Whereas Stephen Hawking has such a large investment in general relativity and black holes and desires an insurance policy -- Black holes ain't so black.

Publishers: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.

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DDC: 523.8875

MMS ID: 991023402879702626