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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What happens when someone or something goes into a black hole? This book introduces some of the major ideas in cosmology, bringing quarks, preons, hypothetical subparticles, pulsars, galaxies, the Big Bang theory, dark energy, and gravitational waves to life with accessible language and vivid full-color art work. The text includes fascinating sidebars and fact boxes that add extra excitement to this look into deep space phenomena. Whether it's about...
85) The black hole
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are all aboard an Earth discovery vessel on a fruitless search for life in space when they encounter a lost spaceship perched on the event horizon of the universe's most powerful phenomenon, a black hole.
86) I'm a black hole
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lurking at the center of our galaxy and in the farthest reaches of space are black holes. Once unseeable and unknowable, these cosmic devourers--sometimes born from the death of stars--swallow even light itself. What exactly is a black hole? And how do we even know they exist? In a kid-friendly, rhyming narration, the elusive astronomical object introduces itself as both a behemoth star-eater and a shy, rarely-spotted phenomena. Physicist Eve M....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For decades, Kip Thorne has been consumed by a desire to better understand our universe's "Warped Side." Using an untold number of computer simulations and mathematical equations, and with a thousand-person fleet of scientists and engineers, Thorne has relentlessly pursued his quest, inventing and constructing, in the process, LIGO, the world's largest gravitational wave observatory, to mediate our first encounters with the Warped Side. Thirteen...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Travel back in time to the big bang, and learn about the formation of the universe. Explore the baffling world of black holes, and find out how scientists are searching for alien life. Discover the strangest sights of the universe, from quirky quasars to clouds that smell like raspberries."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fascinating astronomy facts delivered in a lighthearted, illustrated, Q and A format. Space facts from an astrophysicist, brought down to earth by a middle school teacher -- these are answers to kids' real, wacky, smart questions. Light, space, stars, galaxies, planets and more, all explained with accuracy and humor, and accompanied by images from across the Universe.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The black hole (2005, 90 min.): It's 2 a.m. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes horribly wrong, unleashing a destructive, alien force and triggering a massive black hole over the city. Mass chaos reigns as scientist Eric Bryce scrambles to find a way to obliterate the alien and the colossal black hole before mankind in annihilated.
Supernova (2006, 172 min.): An astrophysicist has made a cataclysmic discovery: the sun is set to...
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