Black Holes in Space-Time

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An accessible introduction to current theories on black holes-collapsed stars in which gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Topics include the life cycle of stars and what black holes have taught us about the origin and fate of the universe.

Discusses the formation and possible behavior of black holes and why we believe that they exist.

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New York 1991 Hard Cover First Edition Very Good in Very Good jacket Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, with complete number sequence. ... Copyright 1991 by Kitty Ferguson. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 91-2111. This lovely hard cover book, 143 pages long, is in very good condition, with moderate shelf wear, moderate bumping to the bottom of the spine, light page edge soiling, light spine cocking. Ex-library, with the usual stamping and marking, stamping to the top page edges, pocket and pastedown on the front free endpaper. The pages are tight and bright. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the cover edges, light surface scuffing and soiling, plastic covered, some bubbling of plastic, jacket taped to the book. "Author Kitty Ferguson cordially invites you to spend some time with the greatest physicists of the past and present as they introduce the "deep, happy mysteries" of the universe. We are now certain that black ho Read more Show Less

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An accessible introduction to current theories on black holes-collapsed stars in which gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Topics include the life cycle of stars and what black holes have taught us about the origin and fate of the universe.

Discusses the formation and possible behavior of black holes and why we believe that they exist.

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Gr 7 Up-- Everything readers always wanted to know about black holes, but were afraid they wouldn't understand: where they come from, how they fit into physics, what they are like, how to find them. Readers still may not feel comfortable with the counter-intuitive concepts involved in the study of matter packed so densely that nothing can escape its immediate vicinity, but this highly accurate, non-mathematical presentation may be their best chance for gaining a general understanding. The text is so tightly focused that a bit of general background on nuclear reactions and spectral analysis is helpful, although not imperative. Unfortunately, the pleasure of reading an error-free piece of popular scientific writing is alloyed with such peripheral nuisances as painfully small print in some of the boxed insets and the overuse of sentence fragments. The glossary of words appearing in bold type in the text adds little enlightenment. The list of sources notes which books are accessible to young adults. Nothing else currently available on this level offers so complete a description of the subject. However, Asimov's How Did We Find Out About Black Holes? (Walker, 1978) is useful for historical background, and many readers of Ferguson's book will want to go on to the wider view of the universe presented in A Brief History of Time (Bantam, 1988) by Stephen Hawking. --Margaret Chatham, formerly at Smithtown Library, NY
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780531125243
  • Publisher: Scholastic Library Publishing
  • Publication date: 2/1/1991
  • Series: Venture Bks.
  • Pages: 112
  • Age range: 12 - 14 Years

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