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  • By: Janna Levin
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What would happen if you fell into a black hole?

Black holes are the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe, but they are a riddle that confounds our intuitions. 

Anything that enters them can never escape and yet they contain nothing at all. They are bigger on the inside than the outside suggests. They are dark on the outside but not on the inside. They invert time into space and space into time. 

Black holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our sun. Our solar system is currently orbiting a black hole 26,000 light years away at a speed of 200 km per second.

In Black Hole Survival Guide physicist and novelist Janna Levin takes you on a journey into a black hole, explaining what would happen to you in there and why. In the process you'll come to see how their mysteries contain answers to some of the most profound questions ever asked about the nature of our universe.
©2020 Janna Levin (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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Not my bag

If you love detail and scientific detail in particular then you'll love this book. But to the moderately scientific 90% of this went straight over my head. There's a lot of conjecture too so who's to say how much of our understanding of black holes will change as our understanding of these phenomena unfolds.
Not sorry that I did read it but very glad when it was finished.

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