From black clouds to black holes / Jayant V. Narlikar



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

1985

From black clouds to black holes / Jayant V. Narlikar

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This book describes in nontechnical language the physical picture of the constituents of a star, and a description of how it evolves in time, how its shape and brightness change, how it manufactures chemical elements deep in its interior, what makes it eventually explode. The presentation is up-to-date and includes such exotic objects as supemovae, pulsars, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and black holes.

Subjects

Stars Black holes (Astronomy) Astrophysics

Categories

Nature and Environment

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Title
From black clouds to black holes / Jayant V. Narlikar
Creators
  • Narlikar, Jayant Vishnu, 1938-
Subject
  • Stars
  • Black holes (Astronomy)
  • Astrophysics
Publisher
  • World Scientific, 1985
  • National Library Board Singapore, 1985
Digital Description
application/pdf, ill.
Table of Contents
  • the storehouse of information -- 3. The vital statistics of stars -- 4. How far are the stars? -- 5. A star is born -- 6. The secret of stellar energy -- 7. The stars as fusion reactors -- 8. When stars explode -- 9. Very dense stars -- 10. Black holes -- 11. The quest continues -- Appendix: Powers of ten and logarithms -- Index.
Copyright
  • All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.