and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor of Astronomy and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University of Texas at Austin, where he was Chair of the department from 1986 to 1990.
This will be essential reading for undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics, and an excellent, accessible introduction for a wider audience. In addition to recent developments in astrophysics, this book also covers the physics of the twentieth century, discussing quantum theory and Einstein’s gravity, how these two theories collide, and the prospects for their reconciliation in the twenty-first century. It examines the theoretical ideas behind black holes and their manifestation in observational astronomy, and presents neutron stars in all their variety known today. It covers the origins of stars and their evolution the mechanisms responsible for supernovae, and their progeny neutron stars, and black holes. This fully updated Second Edition incorporates new material on binary stars, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, wormholes, quantum gravity, and string theory. Cosmic Catastrophes Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe Second Editionįrom supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this is an exploration of the intellectual threads that led to some of the most exciting ideas in modern astrophysics and cosmology.
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