Mapping the Heavens Natarajan Priyamvada
Mapping the Heavens Natarajan Priyamvada For all curious readers, a lively introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universeThis book provides a tour…
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Mapping the Heavens Natarajan Priyamvada
For all curious readers, a lively introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universeThis book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries--the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the research--an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter.
She not only explains for a wide audience the science behind these essential ideas but also provides an understanding of how radical scientific theories gain acceptance.The formation and growth of black holes, dark matter halos, the
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