Front cover image for Empire of the stars : obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes

Empire of the stars : obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes

A history of the idea of "black holes" explores the tumultuous debate over the existence of this now well-accepted phenomenon, focusing particular attention on Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Print Book, English, 2005
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2005
Biography
xx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780618341511, 061834151X
57243361
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