Black Holes Explained

by Professor Alex Filippenko

DVD, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

523.8

Series

The Great Courses (1841)
The Great Courses: Science and Mathematics (1841)

Tags

astronomy, spacetime, physics, Great Courses, {DVD}, {streaming}, {WondriumNo}, {TGCyes}

Collections

Your library, Media

Publication

Teaching Company (2009), DVD-ROM, 2 DVDs, 12 lectures, 90-page booklet

Description

Nearly everyone has heard of black holes, but few people outside of complex scientific fields understand their true nature and their implications for our universe. This lecture course makes this cosmological subject graspable, with 12 lavishly illustrated lectures by veteran Great Courses Professor Alex Filippenko, a distinguished astronomer and award-winning teacher at the University of California, Berkeley.

Language

English

Original language

English

ISBN

1598035894 / 9781598035896

Local notes

[01] A general introduction to black holes [02] The violent deaths of massive stars [03] Gamma-ray bursts: the birth of black holes [04] Searching for stellar-mass black holes [05] Monster of the Milky Way and other galaxies [06] Quasars: feasting supermassive black holes [07] Gravitational waves: ripples in space-time [08] The wildest ride in the universe [09] Shortcuts through the universe and beyond? [10] Stephen Hawking and black hole evaporation [11] Black holes and holographic universe [12] Black holes and the Large Hadron Collider

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