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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Bartusiak, Marcia, 1950-     Subjects     Black holes (Astronomy)     Discoveries in science.     Science -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bartusiak, Marcia, 1950-       by title:      Black hole [electron...         MARC Display

Black hole [electronic resource] : how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved / Marcia Bartusiak. by Bartusiak, Marcia, 1950- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2015. Subjects Black holes (Astronomy)   Discoveries in science.   Science -- Social aspects. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5E4DAE3C-3390-4C6D-B4E4-550E9BABC137 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5e4dae3c-3390-4c6d-b4e4-550e9babc137&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1494-1/{5E4DAE3C-3390-4C6D-B4E4-550E9BABC137}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780300210859 (electronic book) 030021085X (electronic book) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes--not even light--seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the fierce black hole debates and the contributions of Einstein and Hawking and other leading thinkers who completely altered our view of the universe. Renowned science writer Marcia Bartusiak shows how the black hole helped revive Einstein's greatest achievement, the general theory of relativity, after decades during which it had been pushed into the shadows. Not until astronomers discovered such surprising new phenomena as neutron stars and black holes did the once-sedate universe transform into an Einsteinian cosmos, filled with sources of titanic energy that can be understood only in the light of relativity. This book celebrates the hundredth anniversary of general relativity, uncovers how the black hole really got its name, and recounts the scientists' frustrating, exhilarating, and at times humorous battles over the acceptance of one of history's most dazzling ideas"--Jacket.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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