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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
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At 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.
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. And yet, although the laws of nature predict them, they fail fully to describe them.
Brian Cox and 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.
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- Contributor: Professor Brian Cox
- Imprint: William Collins
- ISBN13: 9780008350758
- Number of Pages: 288
- Packaged Dimensions: 159x240x28mm
- Packaged Weight: 550
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Release Date: 2022-10-06
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Professor Brian Cox CBE FRS is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He has worked on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the HERA accelerator at DESY and the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab. Cox has written and presented numerous TV series for the BBC, including the Wonders Trilogy, Forces of Nature, The Planets and The Universe. He is also the co-presenter of The Infinite Monkey Cage. Professor Jeff Forshaw is a theoretical physicist and Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester. Together with Professor Cox, he has written three bestselling science titles: Why Does E=mc (2)?, The Quantum Universe and Universal. He was awarded the 1999 James Clerk Maxwell Medal by the UK's Institute of Physics to recognise outstanding early career contributions to theoretical physics and the 2013 Kelvin Medal for outstanding and sustained contributions to public engagement.
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