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Black Holes : the Key to Understanding the Universe by Brian Cox (undifferentiated), Jeff Forshaw, Brian Cox is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe. At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes. Today, across the universe, at the heart of every galaxy, and dotted throughout, mature black holes are creating chaos. And in a quiet part of the universe, the Swift satellite has picked up evidence of a gruesome death caused by one of these dark powers. High energy X-ray flares shooting out from deep within the Draco constellation are thought to be the dying cries of a white dwarf star being ripped apart by the intense tides of a supermassive black hole – heating it to millions of degrees as it is shredded at the event horizon. They have the power to wipe out any of the universe's other inhabitants, but no one has ever seen a black hole itself die. But 1.8 billion light years away, the LIGO instruments have recently detected something that could be the closest a black hole gets to death.

Who reads Black Holes : the Key to Understanding the Universe?

Author

Brian Cox (undifferentiated), Jeff Forshaw, Brian Cox

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062936707

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Astronomy, Stem

Rating

4.5 / 5 (410 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14