Black hole : how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved / Marcia Bartusiak.

"For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes--not even light--seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest) Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Bartusiak, Marcia, 1950-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Black holes (Astronomy) Discoveries in science. Science > Social aspects.