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Breve Historia de Los Agujeros Negros / a Brief History of Black Holes: and Why Nearly Everything You Know about Them Is Wrong

Breve Historia de Los Agujeros Negros / a Brief History of Black Holes: and Why Nearly Everything You Know about Them Is Wrong

by Rebecca Smethurst
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/01/2025

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Un apasionante paseo por la historia del espacio, con una voz ingeniosa y encantadora y muchas referencias a la cultura pop. Smethurst es una de las más conocidas divulga- doras de astrofísica en el Reino Unido, colabora- dora habitual en la BBC y visitará nuestro país para promocionar su exitoso ensayo.

Nuestro gran lanzamiento de divulgación del 2024. En la línea del universo en tu mano o gravedad, una nueva voz que dará mucho que hablar.

En este preciso momento estás orbitando alrededor de un agujero negro.

Rebecca Smethurst, galardonada investigadora de la Universidad de Oxford, arroja luz sobre el fenómeno más misterioso y emocionante de la astrofísica, y desarma los equívocos construidos a su alrededor para contarnos la verdad. Que los agujeros negros no son realmente negros. Que se parecen más a una mullida almohada que a una potente aspiradora. Que orbitamos alrededor del agujero negro supermasivo denominado La Vía Láctea.

Un ensayo cautivador que nos lleva desde el colapso de las primeras estrellas hasta los últimos hallazgos de la astronomía, y que da respuesta a las preguntas más profundas sobre el universo y sobre nuestro lugar en él.

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.

ISBN:
9788410025653
9788410025653
Category:
Astrophysics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-01-2025
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Blackie Books
Country of origin:
Spain
Dimensions (mm):
208.28x139.7mm
Weight:
0.37kg
Rebecca Smethurst

Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist and research fellow at the University of Oxford. Her current research is trying to answer the question 'How do galaxies and black holes evolve together?'. Her Youtube channel Dr. Becky, where she explains unsolved mysteries, weird objects found in space and general space news each week, has 14k subscribers and counting. She also presents physics videos for YouTube channel Sixty Symbols and astronomy videos for Deep Sky Videos. She was shortlisted for the Institute of Physics Early Career Physics Communicator Award and was named Audience Winner of the UK National Final of the FameLab 2014 Competition.

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