Black Holes by Brian Cox - ISBN: 9780062936714
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Black holes: Cosmic monsters holding the universe’s deepest secrets.

Black Holes

The Key to Understanding the Universe

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    12 March 2024

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Summary

By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive work of popular science 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 galax…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780062936714
ISBN-10:0062936719
Author:Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:Collins
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:12 March 2024
Weight:245g
Dimensions:203mm x 134mm x 18mm
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Critics Review

“The master of the universe” - The Times (London) on Wonders of the Universe“Carl Sagan with a Britpop haircut” - Los Angeles Times on Wonders of the Universe“It’s as wonderful as the Universe!” - Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, on Wonders of the Universe“I absolutely, thoroughly enjoyed talking to Brian Cox today. I was looking forward to this podcast for a long time, and it actually exceeded my incredibly high expectations. What a brilliant and cool motherf*cker that guy is.” - Joe Rogan“A spellbinding cosmic exploration.” - Kirkus Reviews

About The Author

Brian Cox

Brian Cox, Ph.D., is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester. Dr. Cox is also a Royal Society research fellow and a researcher on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is perhaps best known as a science broadcaster and host of the BBC’s hugely popular Wonders series. He is the coauthor of three companion books to these series, which have become #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, as well as two narrative works of popular science, The Quantum Universe and Why Does E = mc2? In the 1990s he played keyboards for the UK pop band D: Ream.

Jeff Forshaw, Ph.D., is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester, specializing in the physics of elementary particles. In 1999 he was awarded the Institute of Physics Maxwell Medal for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics. He is the coauthor of five books on science with Brian Cox.

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