Black hole blues : and other songs from outer space /

Black hole blues : and other songs from outer space / by Janna Levin.

"In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search, over the last fifty years...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levin, Janna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Gravitational waves.
Black holes (Astronomy)
Table of Contents:
  • When black holes collide
  • High fidelity
  • Natural resources
  • Culture shock
  • Joe Weber
  • Prototypes
  • The Troika
  • The climb
  • Weber and Trimble
  • LHO
  • Skunkworks
  • Gambling
  • Rashomon
  • LLO
  • Little cave on Figueroa
  • The race is on.

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