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Revealing the heart of the galaxy : = the Milky Way and its black hole /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Revealing the heart of the galaxy :/ Robert H. Sanders.
Reminder of title:	the Milky Way and its black hole /
Author:	Sanders, Robert H.
Published:	New York, NY, USA :Cambridge University Press, : 2014.,
Description:	ix, 197 p. :ill. ;26 cm.
Subject:	Black holes (Astronomy) -
Subject:	Galactic center. -
ISBN:	9781107039186 (hbk.):

Revealing the heart of the galaxy : = the Milky Way and its black hole /
Sanders, Robert H.

Revealing the heart of the galaxy :the Milky Way and its black hole /Robert H. Sanders. - New York, NY, USA :Cambridge University Press,2014. - ix, 197 p. :ill. ;26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.

Introduction: the luminous pathway --

Written in an informal and engaging style, this volume traces the discoveries that led to our understanding of the size and structure of the Milky Way, and the conclusive evidence for a massive black hole at its center. Robert H. Sanders, an astronomer who witnessed many of these developments, describes how we parted the veil of interstellar dust to probe the strange phenomena within. We now know that the most luminous objects in the Universe - quasars and radio galaxies - are powered by massive black holes at their hearts. But how did black holes emerge from being a mathematical peculiarity, a theoretical consequence of Einstein's theory of gravity, to become part of the modern paradigm that explains active galactic nuclei and galaxy evolution in normal galaxies such as the Milky Way? This story, aimed at non-specialist readers and students and historians of astronomy, will both inform and entertain.

ISBN: 9781107039186 (hbk.):US39.99

LCCN: 2013024124Subjects--Topical Terms:

546291
Black holes (Astronomy)
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

2070527
Galactic center.

LC Class. No.: QB843.B55 / S26 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 523.1/13

Revealing the heart of the galaxy : = the Milky Way and its black hole /
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