Description: "At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster four million times more massive than the Sun. Within its domain, space and time are so warped that no light escapes. According to Einstein, here lies the end of time. According to twenty-first century physics, the reality may be far more bizarre. Meet the most extraordinary object in the universe: the black hole ... In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed physicists 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"--
Brief description:
Brian Cox, Ph.D., is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester. Dr. Cox is also a Royal Society research fellow and a researcher on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is perhaps best known as a science broadcaster and host of the BBC's hugely popular Wonders series. He is the coauthor of three companion books to these series, which have become #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, as well as two narrative works of popular science, The Quantum Universe and Why Does E = mc2? In the 1990s he played keyboards for the UK pop band D: Ream.
Review Quotes:
"The master of the universe" - The Times (London) on Wonders of the Universe
"Carl Sagan with a Britpop haircut" - Los Angeles Times on Wonders of the Universe
"It's as wonderful as the Universe!" - Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, on Wonders of the Universe
"I absolutely, thoroughly enjoyed talking to Brian Cox today. I was looking forward to this podcast for a long time, and it actually exceeded my incredibly high expectations. What a brilliant and cool motherf*cker that guy is." - Joe Rogan
"A spellbinding cosmic exploration." - Kirkus Reviews