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

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Dr Becky Smethurst

A Brief History of Black Holes

And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

Dr Becky Smethurst

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Macmillan
30 August 2022

Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Popular science; Cosmology & the universe; Astrophysics

The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. As you read this you are currently orbiting a black hole. Money might make the world go round, but black holes make the universe go round.

Black holes are not just a curiosity; they are some of the most important objects for understanding how our universe works and how it came to be. And yet they are incredibly misunderstood; take everything you think you know about black holes and get rid of it.

This book will be a book about black holes like no other; it will journey beyond the event horizon and consider what the 'inside' of a black hole is truly like, and flip it on its head. It will take black holes and turn them from something beyond comprehension for the average person on the street to a level of understanding you never thought possible, through unique analogies and ideas the human brain has a hope of actually picturing. This book will show you why you should be calling them white mountains - and not black holes.

By: Dr Becky Smethurst
Imprint: Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 358g
ISBN: 9781529086713
ISBN 10: 152908671X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 August 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

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. Becky presents The Supermassive Podcast in association with the Royal Astronomical Society, receiving thousands of listens every month. She regularly appears on national television and radio to explain the latest space news stories and has been an expert featured on The Sky at Night on the BBC. She jokes that her proudest moment is when she identified a song from Disney's Frozen in under two seconds during her appearance on Christmas University Challenge.

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

A lot of astrophysics is packed into this neat little book -- Jim Al-Khalili on <i>Space: 10 Things You Should Know </i> Bite-sized, cutting edge science delivered with enormous enthusiasm -- Chris Lintott on <i>Space: 10 Things You Should Know</i>