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A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

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By (author): Becky Dr Smethurst Dr Becky Smethurst

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 arent 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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Product Details
  • Weight: 207g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529086744

About Becky Dr SmethurstDr Becky Smethurst

Dr Becky Smethurst is an award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator at the University of Oxford specializing in how galaxies co-evolve with their supermassive black holes. In 2022 she was awarded the Royal Astronomical Societys Research Fellowship. Her YouTube channel Dr Becky has over 400000 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: 10 Things You Should Know was named one of BBC Sky at Night Magazines books of the year and translated all around the world.

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