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

by Becky Smethurst

Book Overview

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 A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics. She takes us from the earliest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529086744
• ISBN13: 9781529086744
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Pan Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"