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Robert H. Sanders |
Revealing the heart of the galaxy: The Milkey Way and Its Black Hole |
025532 |
2014 |
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Robert H. Sanders |
Dark matter problem: A historical perspective |
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| Title | Revealing the heart of the galaxy: The Milkey Way and Its Black Hole |
| Author(s) | Robert H. Sanders |
| Publication | Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Description | ix, 197p. |
| Abstract Note | Written in an informal and engaging style, this volume traces the discoveries that led to our understanding of the size and structure of the Milky Way, and the conclusive evidence for a massive black hole at its center. Robert H. Sanders, an astronomer who witnessed many of these developments, describes how we parted the veil of interstellar dust to probe the strange phenomena within. We now know that the most luminous objects in the Universe - quasars and radio galaxies - are powered by massive black holes at their hearts. But how did black holes emerge from being a mathematical peculiarity, a theoretical consequence of Einstein's theory of gravity, to become part of the modern paradigm that explains active galactic nuclei and galaxy evolution in normal galaxies such as the Milky Way? This story, aimed at non-specialist readers and students and historians of astronomy, will both inform and entertain. |
| ISBN,Price | 9781107039186 : UKP 25.00(HB) |
| Classification | 524.6
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
2. BLACK HOLE
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
5. GALACTIC CENTRE
6. MILKY WAY
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| Title | Dark matter problem: A historical perspective |
| Author(s) | Robert H. Sanders |
| Publication | Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description | viii, 205p. |
| Abstract Note | Most astronomers and physicists now believe that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by dark matter: hypothetical particles which interact with normal matter primarily through the force of gravity. Though invisible to current direct detection methods, dark matter can explain a variety of astronomical observations. This book describes how this theory has developed over the past 75 years, and why it is now a central feature of extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Current attempts to directly detect dark matter locally are discussed, together with the implications for particle physics. The author comments on the sociology of these developments, demonstrating how and why scientists work and interact. Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), the leading alternative to this theory, is also presented. This fascinating overview will interest cosmologists, astronomers and particle physicists. Mathematics is kept to a minimum, so the book can be understood by non-specialists. |
| ISBN,Price | 9780521113014 : UKP 35.00(HB) |
| Classification | 524.8(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS - HISTORY
2. COSMOLOGY
3. DARK MATTER
4. DARK MATTER - HISTORY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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