Black Holes

CLIFFORD A. PICKOVER, Ph.D., is the author of numerous popular science and mathematics books including Keys to Infinity, Chaos in Wonderland, and Mazes for the Mind. He is also the lead author of the "Brain Boggler" column in Discover magazine. He is a researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and his work in computer science has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, Wired, The Christian Science Monitor, Omni, and Science News. For his work in computer graphics, he received first prize in the 1990 Beauty of Physics Competition.

How to Calculate a Black Hole's Mass; The Black Hole's Event Horizon Circumference; Black-Hole Tidal Forces; A Black Hole's Gravitational Lens; A Black Hole's Gravitational Blueshift; Gravitational Time Dilation; Anatomical Dissection of Black Holes; Embedding Diagrams for Warped Space-Time; Gravitational Wave Recoil; Optical Appearance of a Collapsing Star; Gravitational Distension Near a Black Hole's Heart; Quantum Foam; Black-Hole Recreations; Mathematical Black Holes; Black Holes Evaporate; Wormholes, Cosmological Doughnuts, and Parallel Universes; Postscripts; Author's Musings; Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies; Notes; Further Reading; Index.