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A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
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PAN MACMILLAN INDIA
| Author:
Dr Becky Smethurs
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
PAN MACMILLAN INDIA
Author:
Dr Becky Smethurs
Language:
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Format:
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In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.
‘A jaunt through space history . . . with charming wit and many pop-culture references’ – BBC Sky At Night Magazine
Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.
The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.
In this cosmic tale of discovery, Dr Becky Smethurst takes us from the earliest observations of the universe and the collapse of massive stars, to the iconic first photographs of a black hole and her own published findings.
She explains why black holes aren’t really ‘black’, that you never ever want to be ‘spaghettified’, how black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers and why, beyond the event horizon, the future is a direction in space rather than in time.
Told with humour and wisdom, this captivating book describes the secrets behind the most profound questions about our universe – all hidden inside black holes.
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In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.
‘A jaunt through space history . . . with charming wit and many pop-culture references’ – BBC Sky At Night Magazine
Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.
The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.
In this cosmic tale of discovery, Dr Becky Smethurst takes us from the earliest observations of the universe and the collapse of massive stars, to the iconic first photographs of a black hole and her own published findings.
She explains why black holes aren’t really ‘black’, that you never ever want to be ‘spaghettified’, how black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers and why, beyond the event horizon, the future is a direction in space rather than in time.
Told with humour and wisdom, this captivating book describes the secrets behind the most profound questions about our universe – all hidden inside black holes.
About Author
Dr
Becky Smethurst is an award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator
at the University of Oxford, specialising in how galaxies co-evolve with
their supermassive black holes. She was recently awarded the Royal
Astronomical Society’s Research Fellowship for 222. Her YouTube channel, ‘Dr
Becky’, has over 4, subscribers who engage with her videos on weird objects
in space, the history of science and monthly recaps of space news. A Brief
History of Black Holes is her second book; her first, Space: 1 Things You
Should Know was named one of Sky at Night magazine’s Top 2 books of 219 and
translated all around the world.
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