Breve Historia de Los Agujeros Negros / A Brief History of Black Holes

En este preciso momento est s orbitando alrededor de un agujero negro.

Rebecca Smethurst, galardonada investigadora de la Universidad de Oxford, arroja luz sobre el fen meno m s misterioso y emocionante de la astrof sica, y desarma los equ vocos construidos a su alrededor para contarnos la verdad. Que los agujeros negros no son realmente negros. Que se parecen m s a una mullida almohada que a una potente aspiradora. Que orbitamos alrededor del agujero negro supermasivo denominado La V a L ctea.

Un ensayo cautivador que nos lleva desde el colapso de las primeras estrellas hasta los ltimos hallazgos de la astronom a, y que da respuesta a las preguntas m s profundas sobre el universo y sobre nuestro lugar en l.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

'A jaunt through space history . . . with charming wit and many pop-culture references' -BBC Sky At Night Magazine

Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.

The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.

In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics. She takes us from the earliest observations of the universe and the collapse of massive stars, to the iconic first photographs of a black hole and her own published findings.

A cosmic tale of discovery, Becky explains 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. Told with humour and wisdom, this captivating book describes the secrets behind the most profound questions about our universe, all hidden inside black holes.