Gravity’s Century : : From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes / / Ron Cowen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Cowen, Ron,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Genesis --; 2. From Turmoil to Triumph --; 3. Eddington on a Mission --; 4. Expanding the Universe --; 5. Black Holes and Testing General Relativity --; 6. Quantum Gravity --; 7. Hearing Black Holes --; 8. Imaging Black Holes --; Source Notes --; Further Reading --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674239272; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674239272
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ron Cowen.

Ron Cowen offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He shows how we got from Eddington’s pivotal observations of the 1919 eclipse to the Event Horizon Telescope, aimed at starlight wrapping around the black hole at our galaxy’s center.