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• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Step 1 THE SUN
• 1 Look. Don’t Touch.
• 2 What’s That Bright Thing Made Of?
• 3 Fusion: Energy Hidden in Plain Sight
• Step 2 BLACK HOLES
• 4 Old Gravity and New Gravity
• 5 Black Holes in Relativity
• 6 The Lives of Stars
• 7 Black Hole Hunting
• 8 Gravitational Waves
• Step 3 DARK MATTER—DARK ENERGY
• 9 Galactic Scale
• 10 What Is Dark Matter?
• 11 All the Way Out
• 12 Dark Energy, Antigravity, and Einstein’s Fudge
• A Step Back to Earth
• 13 Road Maps
• 14 Science as It Is Written
• Glossary
• Suggestions for Further Reading