Empire of the stars obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes

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Main Author: Miller, Arthur I.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
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245 1 0 |a Empire of the stars :  |b obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes /  |c Arthur I. Miller. 
260 |a Boston :  |b Houghton Mifflin,  |c 2005. 
300 |a xx, 364 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a I: The mystery of white dwarfs -- Fatal collision -- A journey between two worlds -- Rival giants of astrophysics -- Stellar buffoonery -- Into the crucibles of nature -- Eddington's discontents -- American adventure -- An era ends -- II: Stars and bombs -- How stars shine -- Supernovae in the heavens and on earth -- How the unthinkable became thinkable -- III: What happens when stars die -- The jaws of darkness -- Shuddering before the beautiful -- Into a black hole. 
600 1 0 |a Chandrasekhar, S.  |q (Subrahmanyan),  |d 1910- 
600 1 0 |a Eddington, Arthur Stanley,  |c Sir,  |d 1882-1944. 
650 0 |a Astrophysicists  |z India  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Astrophysicists  |z Great Britain  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Astrophysics  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Black holes (Astronomy) 
650 0 |a Relativity (Physics) 
650 0 |a Quantum theory. 
650 0 |a Hydrogen bomb. 
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