Audiobook
Black Holes Explained (The Great Courses, 1841)
by Alex Filippenko
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- Fine
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1598035894
- ISBN 13
- 9781598035896
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Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2009. DVD. Twelve 30-minute lectures on two Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with a Fine 84-page paperback Course Guidebook. Disks show little sign of prior use. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting.
Drawing on extensive graphics, including hundreds of stunning astronomical images, Dr. Filippenko shows how scientists have been able to read the evidence to surmise a great deal about objects that are inherently invisible.
Contents:
Lecture 1 A General Introduction to Black Holes ;
Lecture 2 The Violent Deaths of Massive Stars ;
Lecture 3 Gamma-Ray Bursts—The Birth of Black Holes ;
Lecture 4 Searching for Stellar-Mass Black Holes ;
Lecture 5 Monster of the Milky Way and Other Galaxies ;
Lecture 6 Quasars—Feasting Supermassive Black Holes ;
Lecture 7 Gravitational Waves—Ripples in Space-Time ;
Lecture 8 The Wildest Ride in the Universe ;
Lecture 9 Shortcuts through the Universe and Beyond? ;
Lecture 10 Stephen Hawking and Black Hole Evaporation ;
Lecture 11 Black Holes and the Holographic Universe ;
Lecture 12 Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider.
Drawing on extensive graphics, including hundreds of stunning astronomical images, Dr. Filippenko shows how scientists have been able to read the evidence to surmise a great deal about objects that are inherently invisible.
Contents:
Lecture 1 A General Introduction to Black Holes ;
Lecture 2 The Violent Deaths of Massive Stars ;
Lecture 3 Gamma-Ray Bursts—The Birth of Black Holes ;
Lecture 4 Searching for Stellar-Mass Black Holes ;
Lecture 5 Monster of the Milky Way and Other Galaxies ;
Lecture 6 Quasars—Feasting Supermassive Black Holes ;
Lecture 7 Gravitational Waves—Ripples in Space-Time ;
Lecture 8 The Wildest Ride in the Universe ;
Lecture 9 Shortcuts through the Universe and Beyond? ;
Lecture 10 Stephen Hawking and Black Hole Evaporation ;
Lecture 11 Black Holes and the Holographic Universe ;
Lecture 12 Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider.
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- Books of the World (US)
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- Title
- Black Holes Explained (The Great Courses, 1841)
- Author
- Alex Filippenko
- Format/Binding
- DVD
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 1598035894
- ISBN 13
- 9781598035896
- Publisher
- Teaching Company
- Place of Publication
- Chantilly, Virginia
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Great Courses, Teaching Company, audiobook, audio book, physics, astrophysics, black holes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science & Technology; The Great Courses / The Teaching Company;
- Size
- 8vo
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