Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: The Luminous Pathway
- 2 The Discovery of the Milky Way Galaxy
- 3 The New Physics
- 4 Parting the Veil with Radio Astronomy
- 5 The Violent Universe
- 6 New Windows on the Galactic Center
- 7 The Milky Way as a Barred Spiral Galaxy
- 8 The Evolving View of Active Galactic Nuclei
- 9 The “Paradox of Youth”: Young Stars in the Galactic Center
- 10 Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Center, QED
- 11 Black Holes Here, Black Holes There…
- 12 Traces of Activity: Past, Present, and Future
- 13 After Words: Progress in Astronomy
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: The Luminous Pathway
- 2 The Discovery of the Milky Way Galaxy
- 3 The New Physics
- 4 Parting the Veil with Radio Astronomy
- 5 The Violent Universe
- 6 New Windows on the Galactic Center
- 7 The Milky Way as a Barred Spiral Galaxy
- 8 The Evolving View of Active Galactic Nuclei
- 9 The “Paradox of Youth”: Young Stars in the Galactic Center
- 10 Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Center, QED
- 11 Black Holes Here, Black Holes There…
- 12 Traces of Activity: Past, Present, and Future
- 13 After Words: Progress in Astronomy
- References
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Revealing the Heart of the GalaxyThe Milky Way and its Black Hole, pp. 193 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013