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Loading... The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Most Violent Explosions in the Universeby Jonathan I. Katz
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. What are these things? If, as the data seem to indicate, they are at such great distances, then they are the most powerful events in the universe. I am not entirely convinced that they are coalescing neutron stars. There are, according to the book, problems with the theory. Perhaps they are remnants of antimatter or evaporating black holes. Hmm. no reviews | add a review
For over a quarter of a century, gamma-ray bursts were the outstanding mystery in astronomy. No one knew where they were or how they worked. The Biggest Bangs tells how the mystery was unraveled, from the discovery of gamma-ray bursts by a Cold War satellite system monitoring the Nuclear TestBan Treaty to the localization of bursts in distant galaxies and the observation of surprisingly bright flashes of light from the bursts themselves. The Biggest Bangs is for laymen with an interest in science, physicists and astronomers interested in subjects in those fields not their specialty,students in non-technical astonomy courses, and as supplemental reading for courses in the history of science. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)522.6862Natural sciences and mathematics Astronomy Telescopes and handbooks Auxiliary observationsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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