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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity. Shows how we got from Eddington's pivotal observations of the 1919 eclipse to the Event Horizon Telescope, aimed at starlight wrapping around the black hole at our galaxy's center.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the fifty-year search for gravitational waves, explaining how the waves are created in the collision of black holes and why they can never be detected by telescope, and profiles four scientists currently engaged in the quest.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An astrophysicist and folklorist presents an out-of-this-world autobiography of The Milky Way that recounts the history and future of the universe in accessible but scientific detail, detailing what humans have discovered about everything, from its formation to its eventual death.
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