Black holes : the key to understanding the Universe
Cox, Brian, 1968-2023
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Place reservation for Black holes : the key to understanding the UniverseAt the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun. A place where space and time are so warped that light is trapped if it ventures within 12 million km. According to Einstein, inside lies the end of time. According to 21st-century physics, the reality may be far more bizarre. Black holes lie where the most massive stars used to shine and at the edge of our current understanding. They are naturally occurring objects, the inevitable creations of gravity when too much matter collapses into not enough space. In this book, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw take you to the edge of our understanding of black holes; a scientific journey to the research frontier spanning a century of physics, from Einstein to Hawking and beyond, that ends with the startling conclusion that our world may operate like a giant quantum computer.
Main title:
Black holes : the key to understanding the Universe / Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw.
Author:
Cox, Brian, 1968-, authorForshaw, J. R. (Jeffrey Robert), 1968-, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2023.
Collation:
280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2022.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008390648 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
3583865
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