Overview
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.
This book title, Breve historia de los agujeros negros / A Brief History of Black Holes, ISBN: 9788410025653, by Rebecca Smethurst, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (February 4, 2025) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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