"Go back in time with Nobel Prize laureate Michel Mayor to understand the secrets of the Universe and meet the great names in physics: Newton, Einstein and many more. This graphic-novel guide to the Universe explains complex ideas in a way anyone can understand. It's a book full of adventure--as well as some of the most important concepts humankind has ever studied. On the program: gravitational waves, the theory of relativity, black holes-- and more!"--Back cover.
Cosmology -- The Big Bang -- Cosmic microwave background -- Gravitational waves -- Black holes -- Laws of gravity and motion -- Michel Mayor -- Galileo -- Isaac Newton -- Voltaire -- Space-time -- General relativity -- Einstein -- The Schwarzschild solution -- The Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker solution -- The standard model of cosmology -- Electrons, photons, and quarks -- Redshift -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt -- Schwarzchild radius -- Event horizon -- Spaghettification -- Gravitational singularity -- Dark matter -- Dark energy.
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