Robert H. Sanders

Revealing the Heart of the Galaxy: The Milky Way and Its Black Hole

Buch

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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-107-03918-6
EAN: 9781107039186
Produktnummer: 15221486
Verlag: Cambridge
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 204 S.
Masse: H26.1 cm x B18.2 cm x D2.0 cm 677 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 677

Über den Autor

Robert H. Sanders is Professor Emeritus at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Author of The Dark Matter Problem: A Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Sanders has spent his career studying the orbit structure in barred galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and the problem of the mass discrepancy in galaxies. He received his PhD in astrophysics from Princeton University.