A Black Hole Is Not a Hole

Author: Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1632896478
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Budding astronomers and scientists will love this humorous introduction to the extremely complex concept of black holes. With space facts and answers about the galaxies (ours, and others) A Black Hole is NOT a Hole takes readers on a ride that will stretch their minds around the phenomenon known as a black hole. In lively and text, the book starts off with a thorough explanation of gravity and the role it plays in the formation of black holes. Paintings by Michael Carroll, coupled with real telescopic images, help readers visualize the facts and ideas presented in the text, such as how light bends, and what a supernova looks like. Back matter includes a timeline which sums up important findings discussed throughout, while the glossary and index provide a quick point of reference for readers. Children and adults alike will learn a ton of spacey facts in this far-out book that’s sure to excite even the youngest of astrophiles.

Death By Black Hole

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393062243
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
A collection of essays on the cosmos, written by an American Museum of Natural History astrophysicist, includes "Holy Wars," "Ends of the World," and "Hollywood Nights."

Black Hole Survival Guide

Author: Janna Levin
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1984899791
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space—an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science. "[Levin will] take you on a safe black hole trip, an exciting travel story enjoyed from your chair’s event horizon.” —Boston Globe Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensible but also, and perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. In this book, she helps us to understand and find delight in the black hole—perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists—illustrated with original artwork by American painter and photographer Lia Halloran. Levin takes us on an evocative exploration of black holes, provoking us to imagine the visceral experience of a black hole encounter. She reveals the influence of black holes as they populate the universe, sculpt galaxies, and even infuse the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging, and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative—it is, as well, a wonderful read from first to last.

Muse - Bass Tab Collection

Author: Muse
Publisher: Hal Leonard
ISBN: 1480391085
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
(Bass Recorded Versions Persona). Celebrate the stylings of Chris Wolstenholme, bassist for this popular British alt-rock band with this collection of bass transcriptions with tab. Includes: Feeling Good * Hysteria * Knights of Cydonia * Madness * Muscle Museum * New Born * Panic Station * Plug in Baby * Resistance * Starlight * Supermassive Black Hole * Supremacy * Time Is Running Out * Uprising.

Black Holes and Revelations

Author: Matthew Bellamy
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780739079904
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
After years of being available only in guitar TAB format, the smash-hit 2006 Muse album Black Holes and Revelations is now available as a songbook for keyboardists! A "musician's album," Black Holes exemplifies the band's unique brand of progressive hard rock. This book captures the essential parts played by each instrument in the band and condenses them into arrangements playable on piano or keyboards. Vocal melodies, lyrics, and basic guitar chords are also included. This is sure to be a prized collectible for any Muse fan, and it makes a perfect gift. Titles: Take a Bow * Starlight * Supermassive Black Hole * Map of the Problematique * Soldier's Poem * Invincible * Assassin * Exo-Politics * City of Delusion * Hoodoo * Knights of Cydonia.

Earth

Author: David Brin
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1405514418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 768

Book Description
TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutionary clock and start over. Earth is the Hugo and Locus Award-nominated novel that, with countless accurate predictions, earned David Brin his reputation as a visionary futurologist.

Black Holes and Revelations

Author: Muse (Group)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Black Holes and the Universe

Author: Igorʹ Dmitrievich Novikov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558709
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
A popular account of the properties and significance of black holes.

Black Hole Blues

Author: Janna Levin
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307958191
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
"In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search, over the last fifty years, for these elusive waves--a quest that has culminated in the creation of the most expensive project ever funded by the National Science Foundation ($1 billion-plus). She makes clear the how the waves are created in the cosmic collision of black holes, and why the waves can never be detected by telescope. And, most revealingly, she delves into the lives and fates of the four scientists currently engaged in--and obsessed with--discerning this soundtrack of the universe's history. Levin's account of the surprises, disappointments, achievements, and risks of this unfolding story provides us with a uniquely compelling and intimate portrait of the people and processes of modern science"--

Black Holes

Author: Derek J. Raine
Publisher: Imperial College Press
ISBN: 1848163827
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
This introduction to the fascinating subject of black holes fills a significant gap in the literature which exists between popular, non-mathematical expositions and advanced textbooks at the research level. It is designed for advanced undergraduates and first year postgraduates as a useful stepping-stone to the advanced literature. The book provides an accessible introduction to the exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum field equations describing spherical and axisymmetric (rotating) black holes. The geometry and physical properties of these spacetimes are explored through the motion of particles and light. The use of different coordinate systems, maximal extensions and Penrose diagrams is explained. The association of the surface area of a black hole with its entropy is discussed and it is shown that with the introduction of quantum mechanics black holes cease to be black and can radiate. This result allows black holes to satisfy the laws of thermodynamics and thus be consistent with the rest of physics. In this new edition the problems in each chapter have been revised and solutions are provided. The text has been expanded to include new material on wormholes and clarify various other issues.