A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong

This audio version is narrated with dazzling enthusiasm by the writer, Dr Becky Smethurst.

Proper now, you’re orbiting a black gap.

The Earth orbits the Solar, and the Solar orbits the centre of the Milky Approach: a supermassive black gap, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon within the galaxy.

In A Transient Historical past of Black Holes, the award-winning College of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts 5 hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics. She takes us from the earliest observations of the universe and the collapse of large stars, to the long-lasting first pictures of a black gap and her personal revealed findings.

A cosmic story of discovery, Becky explains why black holes aren’t actually ‘black’, that you just by no means ever wish to be ‘spaghettified’, how black holes are extra like couch cushions than hoovers and why, past the occasion horizon, the long run is a course in house reasonably than in time. Informed with humour and knowledge, this fascinating e-book describes the secrets and techniques behind essentially the most profound questions on our universe, all hidden inside black holes.

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