The Story of Collapsing Stars
Black Holes, Naked Singularities, and the Cosmic Play of Quantum Gravity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 February 2018
- ISBN 9780198818878
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 216x139x12 mm
- Weight 330 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 33 b/w illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe. The issue is of great interest in fundamental physics and cosmology today, from both the perspective of gravitation theory and of modern astrophysical observations.
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This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe. The issue is of great interest in fundamental physics and cosmology today, from both the perspective of gravitation theory and of modern astrophysical observations. This is a revolution in the making and may be intimately connected to our search for a unified understanding of the basic forces of nature, namely gravity that governs the cosmological universe, and the microscopic forces that include quantum phenomena.
According to the general theory of relativity, a massive star that collapses catastrophically under its own gravity when it runs out of its internal nuclear fuel must give rise to a space-time singularity. Such singularities are regions in the universe where all physical quantities take their extreme values and become arbitrarily large. The singularities may be covered within a black hole, or visible to faraway observers in the universe. Thus, the final fate of a collapsing massive star is either a black hole or a visible naked singularity. We discuss here recent results and developments on the gravitational collapse of massive stars and possible observational implications when naked singularities happen in the universe. Large collapsing massive stars and the resulting space-time singularities may even provide a laboratory in the cosmos where one could test the unification possibilities of basic forces of nature.
Although meant for a popular audience, The Story of Collapsing Stars presents the open research questions so clearly that it can also serve as a valuable starting point for scientists and students considering research in the area of gravitational collapse.
Table of Contents:
Our Universe
Fabric of Space-Time
Black Holes
Singularities
Cosmic Censorship
Naked Singularities
Cosmic Conundrums
Is Our Universe Predictable?
A Lab for Quantum Gravity
The Frontiers
