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Author Miller, Arthur I.

Title Empire of the stars : obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes / Arthur I. Miller.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  520.922 MILLER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  520.92 M    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CHANDRASEKHAR, SUBRAHMANYAN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  520.922 MILLER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  520.92 M61    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  520.92 MIL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  520.922 MILLER    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  520.92 MIL    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  520.92 MI    Check Shelf
Description xx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([page 311]-326) and index.
Contents I: The mystery of white dwarfs -- Fatal collision -- A journey between two worlds -- Rival giants of astrophysics -- Stellar buffoonery -- Into the crucibles of nature -- Eddington's discontents -- American adventure -- An era ends -- II: Stars and bombs -- How stars shine -- Supernovae in the heavens and on earth -- How the unthinkable became thinkable -- III: What happens when stars die -- The jaws of darkness -- Shuddering before the beautiful -- Into a black hole.
Subject Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995.
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
Astrophysicists -- India -- Biography.
Astrophysicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Astrophysics -- History -- 20th century.
Black holes (Astronomy)
Relativity (Physics)
Quantum theory.
Hydrogen bomb.
ISBN 061834151X
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