Black Holes
The key to understanding the universe
$30.39
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2022
Summary
At the heart of the Milky Way, there is a distortion in the fabric of the Universe. Caused by something 4 million times bigger than our Sun, it is where space and time are so warped that everything within 12 million kilometres is trapped, even light. This region of no return is called the event horizon, and inside it lies the end of time as we know it. We have named it Sagittarius A* and it is a supermassive black hole.
Black holes lie where the most massive stars used to shine and at…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733340444 |
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| ISBN-10: | 073334044X |
| Author: | Professor Brian Cox, Professor Jeff Forshaw |
| Publisher: | ABC Books |
| Imprint: | ABC Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 389g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Professor Brian Cox
Professor Brian Cox OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known as a science broadcaster and presenter of the popular BBC Wonders trilogy, Human Universe, Forces of Nature and Stargazing Live.
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