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Author Scharf, Caleb A., 1968-

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

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  523.8875 Sch    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239) and index.
Source NBK 8/12 PPL
Subject Black holes (Astronomy)
Gravity.
Cosmology.
ISBN 9780374114121
0374114129

 
    
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