02007nam a22003137a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260219161451.0 ta 260210s2024 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780062936714 0062936719 eng DLC eng QB 843 C877b 2024 Cox, Brian Edward, 1968- 47027 Black holes : the key to understanding the universe / Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw. First Mariner Books paperback edition New York : Mariner Books, 2024 280 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. A brief history of black holes Unifying space and time Bringing infinity to a finite place Warping spacetime Into the black hole White holes and wormholes The Kerr wonderland Real black holes from collapsing stars Black hole thermodynamics Hawking radiation Spaghettified and vaporized The sound of one hand clapping The world as a hologram Islands in the stream The perfect code "At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster four million times more massive than the Sun. Within its domain, space and time are so warped that no light escapes. According to Einstein, here lies the end of time. According to twenty-first century physics, the reality may be far more bizarre. Meet the most extraordinary object in the universe: the black hole . . . In this . . . book, acclaimed physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw take you to the edge of our understanding of black holes; a scientific journey to the research frontier spanning a century of physics, from Einstein to Hawking and beyond"--Provided by publisher Agujeros negros (Astronomía) 29562 Astrofísica 6086 Teoría cuántica 6387 Forshaw, Jeff (Jeffrey Robert), 1968- 47167 lcc BK cmc 126371 126371 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2026-02-10 0 QB 843 C877b 2024 00000198699 2026-02-10 16:51:00 1 2026-02-10 BK