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Numerical coincidences and 'tuning' in cosmology
Martin J. Rees
Fred Hoyle famously drew attention to the significance of apparent coincidences in the energy levels of the carbon and oxygen nucleus. This paper addresses the possible implication…
Black holes in the real universe and their prospects as probes of relativistic gravity
Martin J. Rees
Collapsed objects have definitely been observed: some are stellar-mass objects, the endpoint of massive stars; others, millions of times more massive, have been discovered in the c…
Do globular clusters time the Universe?
Oleg Y. Gnedin, Ofer Lahav, Martin J. Rees
Estimating the age of the Universe is an old problem. Rapid progress in observational cosmology in recent years has led to more accurate values of the fundamental parameters. The c…
Piecing together the big picture
Martin J. Rees
This article (which appeared with illustrations) was the astrophysics/cosmology contribution to the historical series ``Pathways of Discovery'' which appeared in ``Science'' during…
Concluding Perspective
Martin J. Rees
This contribution to the concluding session at IAU Symposium 205 offered comments on some current controversies, including the scientific status of the ''multiverse'' concept and o…
Supermassive Black Holes: Their Formation, and Their Prospects as Probes of Relativistic Gravity
Martin J. Rees
The existence of supermassive collapsed objects in the cores of most galaxies poses still-unanswered questions. First, how did they form, and how does their mass depend on the prop…