The Shadow of the Black Hole
Autor John W. Moffaten Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 sep 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190650728
ISBN-10: 0190650729
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190650729
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
This book is probably the perfect primer for an undergraduate considering a future in cosmology, or for a physicist looking to get a whistle-stop update on gravity, LIGO and the EHT. For those who do persevere through The Shadow of the Black Hole, you will find yourself once more amazed by these stellar graveyards, and the secrets they hold.
...a thrilling ride through the history of our understanding of gravity and through one of its most intriguing manifestations--black holes. It is a fascinating journey through the author's own interactions with physicists. The book perfects our understanding of gravity, historical facts, and modern experiments, including recent observation of gravitational waves and imaging of a supermassive black hole. This personal touch, along with the scientific rigor, makes this book equally interesting for scientists and anyone interested in science. Take it with you to a class, on a plane, or on a beach, and brace yourself for a thrilling gravity ride at a warp speed!
...a compelling survey of both the history of theoretical gravity and key new developments in observational astronomy: LIGO and Virgo detections of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star collisions and the stunning first Event Horizon Telescope image of the shadow of the supermassive black hole M87*. The story is told by a longtime warrior whose battle is nothing short of revolutionizing Einstein's Relativity and the foundations of cosmology as we know it.
Moffat takes us on an entertaining journey through the history of physics and cosmology, leading up to the present day where a revolution in astronomy is allowing us to sense the vibrations caused by colliding black holes and to capture the shadow cast by a massive black hole lurking at the center of a nearby galaxy. Looking to the future, Moffat contemplates how these new observatories might finally reveal the true nature of the dark side of the Universe.
...a thrilling ride through the history of our understanding of gravity and through one of its most intriguing manifestations--black holes. It is a fascinating journey through the author's own interactions with physicists. The book perfects our understanding of gravity, historical facts, and modern experiments, including recent observation of gravitational waves and imaging of a supermassive black hole. This personal touch, along with the scientific rigor, makes this book equally interesting for scientists and anyone interested in science. Take it with you to a class, on a plane, or on a beach, and brace yourself for a thrilling gravity ride at a warp speed!
...a compelling survey of both the history of theoretical gravity and key new developments in observational astronomy: LIGO and Virgo detections of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star collisions and the stunning first Event Horizon Telescope image of the shadow of the supermassive black hole M87*. The story is told by a longtime warrior whose battle is nothing short of revolutionizing Einstein's Relativity and the foundations of cosmology as we know it.
Moffat takes us on an entertaining journey through the history of physics and cosmology, leading up to the present day where a revolution in astronomy is allowing us to sense the vibrations caused by colliding black holes and to capture the shadow cast by a massive black hole lurking at the center of a nearby galaxy. Looking to the future, Moffat contemplates how these new observatories might finally reveal the true nature of the dark side of the Universe.
Notă biografică
John Moffat is a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. For most of his career, he was Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, supervising graduate students towards their PhD degrees and teaching undergraduate and graduate physics courses. Moffat is best known for his research in gravitation, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, and particle physics. In these diverse fields, he has proposed numerous alternative theories to the prevailing ones. In 1953, Albert Einstein personally, though perhaps unintentionally, opened doors for Moffat in the field by introducing him to other well-known physicists. This led him to Trinity College, Cambridge University, and a PhD without an undergraduate degree. To date, Moffat has published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. His most recent book, Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe, published in 2014.