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Cosmic Frontiers Copyright Table of Contents Introduction 1. Black Holes

Listening for gravity waves How big can a star be? ‘Black holes’ in space Black holes: No longer hypothetical No mini black holes yet Monster black holes Repaired Hubble finds giant black hole Black hole’s veil peeled back to reveal bases of powerful jets Hawking radiation created in the lab The mysterious boundary

2. Stars and Galaxies

Everlasting light Sky pinwheels are stellar universes 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away Dr. Hubble finds galaxies evenly scattered in space Nebulae hold sky’s ‘speed record’ Hubble finally has the stars in its eyes Cosmic dawn Explosive tales At home in the universe Galaxy cluster extremely fertile A third of the population can’t see the Milky Way at night

3. Extreme Phenomena

Searching for distant signals Repeating fast radio bursts recorded Quasars are ‘crazy’ New view of quasars sheds light on origin Powerhouse astronomy Neutron stars Let there be spin The mystery of the cosmic gamma-ray zaps Blasts from the past Greatest ray shower Turning a fly’s eye on energetic cosmic rays Chasing a cosmic engine Alien high-energy neutrinos detected

4. The Big Bang and the Universe’s Expansion

Cosmic question mark Scientist says universe is actually exploding Einstein and de Sitter return to Euclidean idea of cosmos Atom started universe Discuss origin of universe Remnants of the primeval fireball believed aglow Will the universe expand forever? The new inflationary nothing universe A computer-generated cosmic portfolio COBE causes Big Bang in cosmology Cosmological controversy: Inflation, texture and waves Eyeing evidence of primordial helium Lab tests mystery of lithium levels Age of the cosmos: a first consensus Balloon sounds out the early universe State of the universe Inflation on trial Gravitational wave discovery gives way to dust

5. Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Light in the dark Celestial pinwheel A closed universe may be axionomatic Battle over WIMPs goes another round Mining for missing matter Dark matter, where art thou? Studies support an accelerating universe Embracing the dark side Data from galaxy clusters suggests dark energy is constant over time

6. The Next Frontiers

Pre-Bang branes and bubbles Strung together Strings link the ultracold with the superhot Success in coping with infinity could strengthen the case for multiple universes When worlds collide Out of the fabric Hunting hidden dimensions

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