From Black Clouds to Black Holes -

Jayant V. Narlikar

World Scientific

1985

147 páginas

4h 54m

ISBN-10: 997197813X

This book describes in nontechnical language one of the success stories of modern astronomy. During the last six decades, astrophysicists have been able to piece together the story of a star's life, thanks to the dramatic improvements in astronomical techniques and in our understanding of the lays of nature. From its birth in a dark interstellar cloud to its probable death in a black hole a star lives an adventurous life.
In this book we are presented with 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 supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and, of course, black holes.