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A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong

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內容簡介 宇宙與黑洞發現是永不退燒的話題，牛津大學年輕科學家Becky Smethurst專攻黑洞研究，以淺白的方式介紹黑洞和宇宙的話題，同時也為很多長久以來對於黑洞的錯誤觀念提出指正，她的Youtube頻道中，解說黑洞的影片超過1700萬次觀看紀錄並持續增加中。 Right now, you are orbiting a black hole. The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole – the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy. In A Brief History of Black Holes University of Oxford astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst charts the scientific breakthroughs that have uncovered the weird and wonderful world of black holes, from the collapse of massive stars to the iconic first photographs of a black hole in 2019. A cosmic tale of discovery, you’ll learn: why black holes aren’t really ‘black’, that you never ever want to be ‘spaghettified’, how black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers, and why beyond the event horizon, the future is a direction in space rather than in time. Full of wit and learning, this captivating book explains why black holes contain the secrets to the most profound questions about our universe.

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作者介紹 Becky SmethurstDr 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. She was recently 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 Top 20 books of 2019 and translated all around the world.

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