Three steps to the universe
Subtitle: from the sun to black holes to the mystery of dark matter
By: David Garfinkle and Richard Garfinkle.
Contributors: Garfinkle, Richard.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780226283463
Subjects: Black holes (Astronomy); Dark matter (Astronomy); Sun
Table of contents: title: The sun; title: Look, don't touch; title: What's that big bright thing made of?; title: Fusion; title: We really know all this?; title: Black holes; title: Old gravity and new gravity; title: Black holes in relativity; title: The lives of stars; title: Black hole hunting; title: Gravitational waves; title: Dark matter-dark energy; title: Galactic scale; title: What is dark matter?; title: All the way out; title: Dark energy, antigravity, and Einstein's fudge; title: A step back to earth; title: Road maps; title: Science as it is written; title: Glossary.