Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
(Princeton University Press) A saga of humankind’s quest to understand the universe, this work combines physics and history to create a rich story of scientific progress in our knowledge of the cosmos. Focusing on dark energy and dark matter, this is the narrative of the “Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter” model of cosmology. Ostriker is professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton.

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