Summary: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HIGSummary: "In a riveting course designed to give non-scientists the matchless experience of scientific discovery and deep understanding, The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know takes you through the most remarkable insights of contemporary physics, showing why physicists believe what they do."--The Great Courses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 EVIFoxe, Steve
Summary: Mr. Kazarian's evil cousin Kronkhold has a black hole generator, and it is up to the alien librarian and the four students who know his secret to stop Kronkhold before his device swallows Earth, and the rest of the solar system--and get back to Earth in time for TJ, Dani, Shea, and Walden to make their class presentation on Albert Einstein.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FOXRovelli, Carlo
Summary: "Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space pull and stretch. And finally, at the black hole's core, space and time dissolve, and a white hole is born. Rovelli has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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Summary: "An introduction to quasars and black holes with information about their formation and characteristics. Includes diagrams, fun facts, a glossary, a resource list, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 HANLatta, Sara L.
Summary: Introduces black holes, discussing the relativity theory of Albert Einstein, the discovery of black holes, the data that scientists use to study them, and scientists' studies of the black hole at the center of the MilKy Way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2018
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Summary: An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars message that will save her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ERNDeCristofano, Carolyn Cinami
Summary: "An accessible introduction to black holes: what they are, how they form, and how scientists find them. This expanded edition includes updated facts and a new chapter on the first-ever photograph of a black hole"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 DECHerji
Summary: "Go back in time with Nobel Prize laureate Michel Mayor to understand the secrets of the Universe and meet the great names in physics: Newton, Einstein and many more. This graphic-novel guide to the Universe explains complex ideas in a way anyone can understand. It's a book full of adventure-- as well as some of the most important concepts humankind has ever studied. On the program:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Helvetiq 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 523.1 HERKurtz, Kevin
Summary: "Go on a high-interest, interactive exploration of black holes using cutting-edge AR technology"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 KURGubser, Steven Scott
Summary: Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality--a viewpoint many shared. This all changed in the 1960s and 1970s, when a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The force of gravity rules the universe. It governs our everyday lives on Earth and it controls the motions of the heavens above. Yet it is one of the least understood of all the forces of nature. This course is designed to give you a basic understanding of the forces of gravity that rule the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 531.14 BLAShehadeh, Raja
Summary: "In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SHESummary: Explore the edges of space and time with Morgan Freeman as your guide in Through The Wormhole. Ten thought-provoking episodes comprise Season Three. Viewers will hold in their hands answers to some of the world's greatest mysteries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THRSummary: Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. Who or what are we? Are we alone? How did life begin? What happened before? The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam Americas 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THRBoyle, Keri Claiborne
Summary: "Jordie loves space. She can't believe it when she finds a black hole in her desk. But when the black hole starts snarfing everything in sight--including her dog--she realizes the black hole needs to go home. "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: There is more to the universe than meets the eye--a lot more. In recent years, scientists have discovered that 95 percent of the contents of the cosmos are invisible to our current methods of direct detection. Yet something is holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together, and something else is causing space to fly apart. Scientists call these invisible components dark matter and dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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Summary: When pizzeria owner's son requests a pizza with everything, his father helps him add sauce, a house, penguins, and more, until they accidentally create a pizza black hole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSummary: The universe is a strange and violent place: full of regions spewing out energy on an unimaginable scale and objects so massive not even light can escape from them. With the discovery of quasars (extremely luminous, compact objects in the hearts of ancient galaxies), the picture of the universe has become even more complex. This program examines possible mechanisms responsible for such enormous...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Falcke, Heino
Summary: "A fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the nature of black holes-a blend of the spiritual, the philosophical, and the scientific-from the premier German astrophysicist who made history in 2019, capturing the first one on film"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.8 FALRoland, James
Summary: "This book explores the latest discoveries about black holes while also exploring various theories and discoveries throughout history and even looking into the future."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 ROLThorne, Kip S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 THOCuevas, Michelle
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez finds herself in possession of a strange new pet that swallows up everything in sight when a black hole decides to follow her home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUEScharf, Caleb A.
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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012