Shadow of the Black Hole

ISBN-13: 9780190650728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 232 str.

John W. Moffat

Recenzje

Moffat takes us on an entertaining journey through the history of physics and cosmology, leading up to the present day where a revolution in astronomy is allowing us to sense the vibrations caused by colliding black holes and to capture the shadow cast by a massive black hole lurking at the center of a nearby galaxy. Looking to the future, Moffat contemplates how these new observatories might finally reveal the true nature of the dark side of the Universe.

O autorze

John Moffat is a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. For most of his career, he was Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, supervising graduate students towards their PhD degrees and teaching undergraduate and graduate physics courses. Moffat is best known for his research in gravitation, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, and particle physics. In these diverse fields, he has proposed numerous alternative theories to the prevailing ones. In 1953, Albert Einstein personally, though perhaps unintentionally, opened doors for Moffat in the field by introducing him to other well-known physicists. This led him to Trinity College, Cambridge University, and a PhD without an undergraduate degree. To date, Moffat has published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. His most recent book, Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe, published in 2014.