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A Brief History of Black Holes
Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
This audio edition is narrated with dazzling enthusiasm by the author, Dr Becky Smethurst.
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...
Details
426 minutes
Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
A jaunt through space history . . . with charming wit and many pop culture referencesBBC Sky At Night Magazine
A fantastic read . . . there's certainly a lot to suck you in (unlike black holes, of course)Popular Mechanics
A lot of astrophysics is packed into this neat little bookJim Al-Khalili on Space: 10 Things You Should Know
Bite-sized, cutting edge science delivered with enormous enthusiasmChris Lintott on Space: 10 Things You Should Know