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

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor 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 2022. Her YouTube channel, ‘Dr Becky’, has over 400,000 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 Sky at Night magazine’s Top 20 books of 2019 and translated all around the world. Klappentext Black Holes are the universe's strangest and most fascinating objects - Dr Becky explains all, and why nearly everything you know about them is wrong. Zusammenfassung Right now, you are orbiting a black hole. The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole – the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy. In A Brief History of Black Holes University of Oxford astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst charts the scientific breakthroughs that have uncovered the weird and wonderful world of black holes, from the collapse of massive stars to the iconic first photographs of a black hole in 2019. A cosmic tale of discovery, you’ll learn: 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. Full of wit and learning, this captivating book explains why black holes contain the secrets to the most profound questions about our universe. 'A jaunt through space history . . . with charming wit and many pop-culture references' - BBC Sky At Night Magazine

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A lot of astrophysics is packed into this neat little book Jim Al-Khalili on Space: 10 Things You Should Know

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Authors Becky Smethurst, Dr Becky Smethurst, Dr Rebecca Smethurst
Publisher Macmillan
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.09.2022
 
EAN 9781529086713
ISBN 978-1-5290-8671-3
No. of pages 279
Dimensions 154 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)

Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Space, planets and extraterrestrial locations, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SCIENCE / Physics / Gravity

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