A Brief History of Black Holes

A jaunt through space history … with charming wit and many pop culture references * BBC Sky At Night Magazine *A lot of astrophysics is packed into this neat little book – Jim Al-Khalili, quantum physicist and author of The World According to Physics, on Space: 10 Things You Should KnowBite-sized, cutting edge science delivered with enormous enthusiasm – Chris Lintott, astrophysicist and host of The Sky at Night, on Space: 10 Things You Should KnowA fantastic read … there’s certainly a lot to suck you in (unlike black holes, of course) * Popular Mechanics *

Dr Becky Smethurst is an award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator at the University of Oxford, specialising in how galaxies co-evolve with their supermassive black holes. In 2022 she was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Research Fellowship for 2022. Her YouTube channel, ‘Dr Becky’, has over 400,000 subscribers who engage with her videos on weird objects in space, the history of science and monthly recaps of space news. A Brief History of Black Holes is her second book; her first, Space: 10 Things You Should Know was named one of Sky at Night magazine’s books of the year, and translated all around the world.