Published 1980
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Galaxies and their nuclei. Chapter 2
Description
The paper outlines what galaxies are; alludes to some physical processes that might determine their size and shape and control their evolution; and places them in their cosmological context. The discussion includes: how galaxies might have formed, and how their study may aid in answering such basic cosmological questions as whether the Universe is destined to expand for ever or to recollapse. Sections are headed: normal galaxies; active galactic nuclei (radio sources, quasars, black holes); galaxy formation; cosmology - the fate of the Universe. (U.K.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press.
- Imprint Place
- Oxford
- ISBN
- 0 19 857549 1
- Imprint Title
- The state of the universe
- Imprint Pagination
- 206 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 16-39.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 11567422
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; COSMOLOGY; EXPANSION; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; GALAXIES; GALAXY NUCLEI; QUASARS; SHAPE; SIZE; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- CONFIGURATION; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS