Empire of the stars : obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes
- I: The mystery of white dwarfs
- Fatal collision
- A journey between two worlds
- Rival giants of astrophysics
- Stellar buffoonery
- Into the crucibles of nature
- Eddington's discontents
- American adventure
- An era ends
- II: Stars and bombs
- How stars shine
- Supernovae in the heavens and on earth
- How the unthinkable became thinkable
- III: What happens when stars die
- The jaws of darkness
- Shuddering before the beautiful
- Into a black hole.