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Surveying key developments and open issues in cosmology for graduate students and researchers, this book focuses on the general concepts and relations that unde

Assuming basic knowledge of special and general relativity, this book guides the reader to problems under consideration in modern research, concerning black hol

The papers in this volume examine the recent revolutionary discoveries in cosmology and astronomy, and their theoretical interpretation. The observational evide

Weinberg's 1972 work, in his description, had two purposes. The first was practical to bring together and assess the wealth of data provided over the previous d