Black hole : how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved /
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- It is therefore possible that the largest luminous bodies in the universe may be invisible
- Newton, forgive me
- One would then find oneself . . . in a geometrical fairlyand
- There should be a law of nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!
- I'll show those bastards
- Only its gravitational field persists
- I could not have picked a more exciting time in which to become a physicist
- It was the weirdest spectrum I'd ever seen
- Why don't you call it a black hole?
- Medieval torture rack
- Whereas Stephen Hawking has such a large investment in general relativity and black holes and desires an insurance policy
- Black holes ain't so black.