Black holes /
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| Author / Creator: | Luminet, Jean-Pierre |
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| Uniform title: | Trous noirs. English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. |
| Description: | xviii, 312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1290121 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
