A Brief History of Black Holes
Dr. Becky Smethurst is an award-winning astrophysicist and scientific communicator at the University of Oxford who studies how galaxies and their supermassive black holes co-evolve. She was just given a Research Fellowship by the Royal Astronomical Society for 2022. Her second book, A Brief History of Black Holes, follows her debut, Space: 10 Things You Should Know, which was chosen one of Sky at Night magazine's Top 20 books of 2019.
You are now in orbit around a black hole. The Earth revolves around the Sun, and the Sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the galaxy's strangest and most misunderstood entity.
In A Short History of Black Holes, Dr Becky Smethurst of the University of Oxford charts the scientific achievements that have revealed the strange and amazing world of black holes, from the fall of enormous stars to the iconic first images of a black hole in 2019. In this cosmic adventure, you'll learn why black holes aren't actually 'black,' why you never want to be'spaghettified,' why black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers, and why the future is a direction in space rather than time beyond the event horizon. This fascinating book, full of wit and learning, shows why black holes hold the answers to the most important questions about our universe.
Author: Dr Becky Smethurst
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