02186cam a2200277 4500 759651730 TxAuBib 20201005120000.0 200428s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020015159 9780525658221 hbk. $20.95 052565822X hbk. $20.95 (OCoLC)1153338707 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF TOH YDX BDX XYZ CLE TxGR TxAuBib Levin, Janna, author. Black hole survival guide [Book] / Janna Levin. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 143 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm. "This is a Borzoi book.". Entrance -- Space -- Horizon -- Nothing -- Time -- Tardis -- Perfection -- Astrophysics -- Evaporation -- Information -- Hologram -- Firewalls -- Exit. "From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative, wholly accessible, fascinating guide to the most challenging phenomena of contemporary science, which is now the anchor of our understanding of the cosmos. Throughout her career, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused, alongside her research, on making the science she studies not just accessible, but, perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. And that is what she has done again here, helping us to understand the black hole: perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists. She explains how their existence came to be proven decades after they were first predicted in Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity. And she explores the ways in which what we know about them has changed our most basic understanding of the galaxy, the universe, the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative. It is as well, a wonderful read from first to last"-- Provided by publisher. 20201005. Black holes (Astronomy) Popular works. RV8