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

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

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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"--

Contents

Dark star -- A map of forever -- One hundred billion ways to the bottom -- The feeding habits of nonillion-pound gorillas -- Bubbles -- A distant siren -- Origins : part I -- Origins : part II -- There is grandeur.

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Description
ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 523.8 SCH in Adult Non-fiction Available

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