FROM BLACK CLOUDS TO BLACK HOLES - Hardcover

Narlikar, Professor Jayant V

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 997197813X ISBN 13: 9789971978136

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1985

Synopsis

This book describes in a non-technical language, one of the success stories of modern (twentieth-century) astronomy. It presents us with the physical picture of what constitutes a star, with 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 objects such as supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars and white dwarfs, and of course, black holes. The book will be appropriate as supplementary material for an elementary course on astronomy and astrophysics.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This book presents in a simple style the success story of modern astrophysics how the application of known physics to models of stars can, together with the observational data, help us understand what stars are made of, how they live and how they die. The account is non-technical but scientifically accurate. It is interspersed with anecdotes and analogies to make the subject matter readable and understandable even to a lay reader with some basic scientific background.

About the Author:

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is currently the Founder Director of the Inter-Varsity Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pune.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 997197813X
• ISBN 13: 9789971978136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160