Gravitation in Astrophysics

With the discovery of pulsars, quasars, and galactic X-ray sources in the late 60''s and early 70''s, and the coincident expansion in the search for gravitational waves, rela­ tivistic gravity assumed an important place in the astrophysics of localized objects. Only by pushing Einstein''s solar-system-tested general theory of relativity to the study of the extremes of gravitational collapse and it...