A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know about Them Is Wrong - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Pan PublishingISBN-13:9781529086744ISBN-10:1529086744UPC:9781529086744Book Category:Science, EducationBook Subcategory:Physics, Space Science, TeachingBook Topic:Astrophysics, Astronomy, SubjectsSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCPC44PXZ8
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know about Them Is Wrong
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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Pan PublishingISBN-13:9781529086744ISBN-10:1529086744UPC:9781529086744Book Category:Science, EducationBook Subcategory:Physics, Space Science, TeachingBook Topic:Astrophysics, Astronomy, SubjectsSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCPC44PXZ8
Dr Becky Smethurst is an award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator at the University of Oxford, specializing in how galaxies co-evolve with their super massive black holes. She was recently awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Research Fellow ship for 2022. Her YouTube channel, 'Dr Becky', has over 500,000 subscribers who engage with her videos. A Brief History of Black Holes is...
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