A Crack in Everything
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What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The
answers to mankind’s most enduring questions may lie in science’s
greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of space
where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can
escape. This can occur when a star approaches the end of its
life.Unable to generate enough heat to maintain its outer layers,
it shrinks catastrophically down to an infinitely dense point. When
this phenomenon was first proposed in 1916, it defied scientific
understanding so much that Albert Einstein dismissed it as too
ridiculous to be true. But scientists have since proven
otherwise.In 1971, Paul Murdin and Louise Webster discovered the
first black hole: Cygnus X-1. Later, in the 1990s, astronomers
using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that not only do black
holes exist, supermassive black holes lie at the heart of almost
every galaxy, including our own. It would take another three
decades to confirm this phenomenon.On 10 April 2019, a team of
astronomers made history by producing the first image of a black
hole. A Crack in Everything is the story of how black holes came in
from the cold and took cosmic centre stage. As a journalist, Marcus
Chown interviews many of the scientists who made the key
discoveries, and, as a former physicist, he translates the most
esoteric of science into everyday language.The result is a uniquely
engaging page-turner that tells one of the great untold stories in
modern science.
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Marcus Chown ,
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Marcus Chown,
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Slovart
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