A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It's time to explore our universe's most mysterious inhabitants Black Holes At the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun. A place where space and...(展开全部)

作者： 海诺·法尔克(Heino Falcke) 天体物理学家，荷兰奈梅亨大学教授，并担当完成人类首张黑洞照片的“事件视界望远镜”项目科学委员会主席。 约尔格-罗梅尔（Jörg Römer） 他曾一边从事护理工作和记者工作，一边攻读中美洲和拉丁美洲研究以及史前和古代文明研究。2015年起担任SPIEGEL ONLINE健康与科学部编辑。罗梅尔撰写了许多关于海诺·法尔克及其研究的文章。 译者： 闫文驰，北京人。北京大学元培学院学士。波兰绿山大学理论物理硕士。曾就读波兰科学院哥白尼天文中心，研究方向为黑洞吸积盘。通晓多国语言。曾参与翻译多部科普图书。

作者： 海诺·法尔克(Heino Falcke) 天体物理学家，荷兰奈梅亨大学教授，并担当完成人类首张黑洞照片的“事件视界望远镜”项目科学委员会主席。 约尔格-罗梅尔（Jörg Römer） 他曾一边从事护理工作和记者工作，一边攻读中美洲和拉丁美洲研究以及史前和古代文明研究。2015年起担任SPIEGEL ONLINE健康与科学部编辑。罗梅尔撰写了许多关于海诺·法尔克及其研究的文章。 译者： 闫文驰，北京人。北京大学元培学院学士。波兰绿山大学理论物理硕士。曾就读波兰科学院哥白尼天文中心，研究方向为黑洞吸积盘。通晓多国语言。曾参与翻译多部科普图书。

Part of the reissued Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, this book was first published in 1983, and has swiftly become one of the great modern classics of relativity theory. It represents a personal testament to the work of the author, who spent several years writing and working-out the entire subject matter. The theory of black holes is the most simple and be...(展开全部)

In 1935, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar challenged the prevailing theory of the day by suggesting that not all stars die the same death. He proposed that stars with more than 1.4 times the mass of the sun were compressed by their own gravitational forces into dense, dark objects. Winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics, Chandrasekhar here describes in exhaustive detail how a rot...(展开全部)

Answers to science's most enduring questions from "Can I break the light-speed barrier like on Star Trek?" and "Is there life on other planets?" to "What is empty space made of?" This is an indispensable guide to physics that offers readers an overview of the most popular physics topics written in an accessible, irreverent, and engaging manner while still maintaining a to...(展开全部)

As Charles Seife reveals in this energetic new book, information theory, once the province of philosophers and linguists, has emerged as the crucial science of our time, shedding new light on the mysteries of physics, the nature of space and time and the creation and destruction of the universe itself. With his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible and entertai...(展开全部)

The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world Previously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe , Charles Seife draws on his gift for making cutting-edge science accessi...(展开全部)

As Charles Seife reveals in this energetic new book, information theory, once the province of philosophers and linguists, has emerged as the crucial science of our time, shedding new light on the mysteries of physics, the nature of space and time and the creation and destruction of the universe itself. With his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible and entertai...(展开全部)