Furthermore, it now seems almost certain that supermassive black holes are theĬentral engines responsible for the exotic and remarkably energetic phenomena associated It also appears likely that galactic mergers help to grow these monsters in Most, spiral and large elliptical galaxies are home to one or more supermassive black holesĪt their centers. Galaxies, since the publication of the first editions, have revealed that a great many, perhaps Remarkably precise observations of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy and other Two neutron stars, or a neutron star and a black hole, in a binary system. We now know that one class of gamma-ray bursts is associated withĬore-collapse supernovae and that the other class is probably associated with the merger of Gamma-ray bursts that were such an enigma at the time An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics first appeared. Missions such as Swift have enabled us to close in on the solutions to the mysterious Into cometary nuclei, and even return cometary dust to Earth. We have also had roboticĮmissaries visit Jupiter and Saturn, touch down on the surfaces of Titan and asteroids, crash That liquid water has existed on the surface of Mars in the past. TheĪrmada of orbiters, along with the remarkable rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have confirmed Yielded a tremendous amount of new information about our celestial neighborhood. Larger than Pluto, challenging our definition of what a planet is and how many planets ourĮxplorations by robotic spacecraft and landers throughout our Solar System have also (until the International Astronomical Union makes an official determination), appears to be In fact, one of the newly discovered Kuiper belt objects, currently referred to as 2003 UB313 Within our Solar System but beyond Pluto, that are similar in size to that diminutive planet. In addition, within the past decade important discoveries have been made of objects, Systems form, but they also inform us about formation and planetary evolution in our own Not only do these discoveries shed new light on how stars and planetary In the next eleven years, the number of known extrasolar planets has The discovery of an extrasolar planet around 51 Pegasi, the first planet found orbiting a It was just two monthsīefore the printing of the first editions that Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced Has been an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the heavens. Since the first edition of An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics and its abbreviated companion text, An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics, first appeared in 1996, there
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