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A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLACK HOLES - DR BECKY SMETH...

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.
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.  A cosmic tale of discovery 
Becky explains 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. Told with humour and
wisdom  this captivating book describes the secrets behind the most profound questions about
our universe  all hidden inside black holes.   'A jaunt through space history . . . with
charming wit and many pop-culture references' - BBC Sky At Night Magazine

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