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(2018) A conceptual history of space and symmetry, Dordrecht, Springer.

Black holes

the physics of geometry

Pietro Giuseppe Fré

pp. 269-287

When on September 14th 2015 the gravitational wave signal emitted 1.5 billion year ago by two coalescing black stars was detected at LIGO I and LIGO II, we not only obtained a new spectacular confirmation of General Relativity but we actually saw the dynamical process of formation of the most intriguing objects populating the Universe, namely black holes.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98023-2_10

Full citation:

Fré, P. (2018). Black holes: the physics of geometry, in A conceptual history of space and symmetry, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 269-287.

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