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Black holes, once considered to be of purely theoretical interest, play an important role in observational astronomy and a range of astrophysical phenomena. This volume is based on a meeting held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which explored the many aspects of black hole astrophysics. Written by world experts in areas of stellar-mass, intermediate-mass and supermassive black holes, these review papers provide an up-to-date overview of developments in this field. Topics discussed range from black hole entropy and the fate of information to supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and from the possibility of producing black holes in collider experiments to the measurements of black hole spins. This is an invaluable resource for researchers currently working in the field, and for graduate students interested in this active and growing area of research.

Black holes (Astronomy) --- Frozen stars --- Compact objects (Astronomy) --- Gravitational collapse --- Stars --- Astrophysics. --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics

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Four hundred years ago in Middelburg, in the Netherlands, the telescope was invented. The invention unleashed a revolution in the exploration of the universe. Galileo Galilei discovered mountains on the Moon, spots on the Sun, and moons around Jupiter. Christiaan Huygens saw details on Mars and rings around Saturn. William Herschel discovered a new planet and mapped binary stars and nebulae. Other astronomers determined the distances to stars, unraveled the structure of the Milky Way, and discovered the expansion of the universe. And, as telescopes became bigger and more powerful, astronomers delved deeper into the mysteries of the cosmos. In his Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries, astronomy journalist Govert Schilling tells the story of 400 years of telescopic astronomy. He looks at the 100 most important discoveries since the invention of the telescope. In his direct and accessible style, the author takes his readers on an exciting journey encompassing the highlights of four centuries of astronomy. Spectacular photographs, taken with the largest telescopes on Earth and in space, portray the most distant corners of the universe. "Selecting and describing the hundred most impressive and important astronomical discoveries is no easy task, but no one can master this feat as well as Govert Schilling, a veritable master of science communication. With captivating words and breathtaking images, the Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries is a tour-de-force of humankind’s almost unbelievable progress in understanding the cosmos over the past 400 years." Lars Lindberg Christensen, Head of ESO’s Education and Public Outreach Department and author of Cosmic Collisions (Springer 2009) "A hyper modern concept, aimed at the multimedia generation." Sjaak Priester, science reporter in Dutch newspaper "De Volkskrant" "A non plus ultra of astronomical history with breathtaking photography." Peter Reinhard, practical astronomer in Austrian magazine "Die Sternenrundschau".

Astronomy -- history. --- Astronomy, Ancient. --- Cosmology. --- Astronomy --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astronomical Observatories & Instruments --- Astrophysics --- Astronomy - General --- History --- History. --- Universe. --- Physics. --- Astronomy. --- Astrophysics. --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Astronomical physics --- Cosmic physics --- Physics

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You go out for a night’s observing and look up at the sky. There are all the usual suspects—a splattering of stars, the Moon, Venus, maybe Mercury and Mars. Perhaps you can identify some of the constellations. If you are using binoculars or a small telescope, you can see many wonders not revealed to the naked eye but still well known to telescope users for centuries. But what if you look up and see something completely new, something unexplainable. Do your eyes deceive you? Are you really seeing what you think you are seeing? What should you do? In this fascinating account of the many oddball things people – from novice astronomers to certified experts – have observed over the years, you will be introduced to a number of unusual – and sometimes still unexplainable – phenomena occurring in our usually familiar and reassuring skies. What exactly did they see? What discoveries followed these unusual sightings? What remains unexplained? In addition to the accounts, you will find scattered throughout the book a number of suggested astronomy projects that you can do yourself. The projects range from very basic to a bit more challenging, but all are fun and all are very instructive about unusual sightings. Be sure to try them!

Astronomy. --- Astronomy --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astrophysics --- Astronomical Observatories & Instruments --- Astronomy - General --- Physics. --- Astrophysics. --- Cosmology. --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Astronomical physics --- Cosmic physics --- Physics

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In one way or another, Gerry Brown has been concerned with questions about the universe, about its vast expanse as well as about its most miniscule fundamental constituents of matter throughout his entire life. In his endeavours to understand the universe in many manifestations from nuclei all the way to the stars, he has been influenced by some of the most prominent physicists of the 20th century, and he himself, in turn, has influenced a great many scholars. This volume, a collection of articles dedicated to Gerry on his 85th birthday, contains discussions of many of the issues which have at

Nuclear physics. --- Astrophysics. --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Nuclear physics --- Astrophysics --- Physique nucléaire --- Astrophysique --- Brown, G. E. --- Brown, Gerald Edward, --- Brown, Gerry,

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"Neutrinos in Particle Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology" provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to neutrino physics, neutrino astronomy and neutrino cosmology. The intrinsic properties and fundamental interactions of neutrinos are described, as is the phenomenology of lepton flavor mixing, seesaw mechanisms and neutrino oscillations. The cosmic neutrino background, stellar neutrinos, supernova neutrinos and ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrinos, together with the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry and other roles of massive neutrinos in cosmology, are discussed in detail. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the fields of particle physics, particle astrophysics and cosmology. Dr. Zhizhong Xing is a professor at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Dr. Shun Zhou is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany.

Neutrinos. --- Nuclear reactions. --- Nuclear transformations --- Nuclear transmutation --- Collisions (Nuclear physics) --- Compound nucleus --- Nuclear energy --- Nuclear physics --- Neutret --- Leptons (Nuclear physics) --- Neutrons --- Astronomy. --- Nuclear physics. --- Particle and Nuclear Physics. --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Astrophysics. --- Heavy ions. --- Ions --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics