From Black Clouds to Black Holes (World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics ; 1)
 

From Black Clouds to Black Holes (World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics ; 1)

by Jayant V. Narlikar

This book describes in nontechnical language one of the success stories of modern (twentieth-century) astronomy. It presents us with the physical picture of what constitutes a star, a description of how a star evolves with time, how its shape and brightness change, how it manufactures the chemical elements deep in its interior, what makes it explode... The presentation also includes exotic... (read more)

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