With this superbly illustrated, elegantly written, nontechnical account of the most enigmatic astronomical object yet observed, Melia captures all the excitement of the growing realization that humans are on the verge of actually seeing this exotic black hole object within the next few years. 39 illustrations.
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With this superbly illustrated, elegantly written, nontechnical account of the most enigmatic astronomical object yet observed, Melia captures all the excitement of the growing realization that humans are on the verge of actually seeing this exotic black hole object within the next few years. 39 illustrations.
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Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 189 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Hint of foxing top fore-edge. Very good dust jacket. First Edition / First Printing. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 102x12x153; Could Einstein have possibly anticipated directly testing the most captivating prediction of general relativity, that there exist isolated pockets of spacetime shielded completely from our own? Now, almost a century after that theory emerged, one of the world's leading astrophysicists presents a wealth of recent evidence that just such an entity, with a mass of about three million suns, is indeed lurking at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way--in the form of a supermassive ''black hole''! With this superbly illustrated, elegantly written, nontechnical account of the most enigmatic astronomical object yet observed, Fulvio Melia captures all the excitement of the growing realization that we are on the verge of actually seeing this exotic object within the next few years. Melia traces our intellectual pilgrimage to the ''brooding behemoth'' at the heart of the Milky Way. He describes the dizzying technological advances that have recently brought us to the point of seeing through all the cosmic dust to a dark spot in a clouded cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. Carefully assembling the compelling circumstantial evidence for its black hole status, he shows that it is primed to reveal itself as a glorious panorama of activity within this decade--through revolutionary images of its ''event horizon'' against the bright backdrop of nearby, radiating gas. Uniquely, this book brings together a specific and fascinating astronomical subject--black holes--with a top researcher to provide both amateur and armchair astronomers, but also professional scientists seeking a concise overview of the topic, a real sense of the palpable thrill in the scientific community when an important discovery is imminent.
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