Physics Galaxy:

This book intends to provide the reader with the recent progress of studies of fine particle plasmas from the viewpoints of wide and interdisciplinary directions, such as self-organized fine particles, Coulomb crystal formation, behaviors of fine particles, their stability, and syntheses of nano-sized particles in reactive plasmas. The phenomena of dense grain particles and the effects of massive neutrinos in galaxy clustering are included.

Science fiction isn't just for the movies! Cyborgs, shape shifting, the colonization of space and tons more really are possible. Join Dr. Michio Kaku on a quest to discover the science behind the sci fi and find out how to bring your favorite futuristic tech to life.
Episodes: Cyborg Army, Earth 2.0, Alien Invasion, How to Build a Starship, Galactic Colonization

Authors: Grenzebach, Arne

An astrophysicist presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy.

This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin. Relativistic jets have been observed and studied in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) for about half a century and are believed to be fueled by accretion onto a supermassive black hole at the center of the host galaxy. Since the first discovery of relativistic jets associated with so-called "micro-quasars" much more recently, it has seemed clear that much of the physics governing the relativistic outflows in stellar X-ray binaries harboring black holes and in AGN must be common, but acting on very different spatial and temporal scales. With new observational and theoretical results piling up every day, this book attempts to synthesize a consistent, unified physical picture of the formation and disruption of jets in accreting black-hole systems.

Authors: Harrison, Christopher Mark
Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Durham University, UK
Demonstrates that the currently accepted models of galaxy formation are correct in parts but have parts that are not reproduced by observations
Includes a concise review on the properties of supermassive black holes and their predicted role in the formation of galaxies
Awarded the Durham University's Physics Thesis Prize and Keith Nicholas Prize for outstanding performance based on the work presented in this thesis