This book is an introduction to black holes, describing black holes so massive nothing can escape their gravitational forces, supernovas, supermassive black holes at centers of galaxies, accretion disk, and singularity, the center of a black hole.
Discusses the history and current state of scientific understanding of black holes, exploring what they are, how they are formed, potential uses, and what they tell us about the fate of the universe.
Color photographs and text provide information about how stars are formed, look at star sizes, describe the characteristics of supernovas and black holes that form when stars explode, and discuss how astronomers learn about space.
Explores the phenomenon of black holes, explains why astronomers think they exist, what causes them, what they are like inside, and the search to find black holes in space.
how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos
Scharf, Caleb A.
2012
An astrobiologist describes the powerful, mysterious holes in the space-time continuum called black holes, explains how they not only suck in everything around them, but also spit back out clouds of matter, and discusses their role in the universe.
my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics
Susskind, Leonard
2008
Leonard Susskind recounts the battle between himself, Stephen Hawking, and Gerard 't Hooft over the true nature of black holes and explains why the battle was so important to the field of quantum mechanics.
Anthropologist Philip Engstrand watches his relationship with a female particle-physicist deteriorate when she begins spending her time studying a possible portal to another world.
