The role of information science in describing black holes may be pointing us towards a novel description of Nature, but this does not imply we were programmed. This book took the complexity of black holes and narrated it in such a way that you could comprehend what was being discussed without losing the point, which is, this is a complex subject!

At the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun. They were explored in depth (haha), and some concepts were really challenging (like how space and time change places inside the black hole), but the youtube videos helped making some sense of it. My reason for being sceptical is that I assumed this book would be a fairly watered-down affair with the usual dose of hand-wavy analogies that end up obscuring or misconstruing most of the real physics.But it is intriguing, to learn purely theoretical black holes derived only from Einstein's General Relativity. We now understand that the argument is seriously undermined by the overwhelming evidence in support of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.

He has worked on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the HERA accelerator at DESY and the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab. Nor am I particularly skilled at focussing on multiple things, fond of starting over, or withholding anything of value from the theoretical physicists that they haven't already got covered.The author starts from a simple theoretical eternal non-spinning black hole, Schwarzschild's solution of Einstein's General Relativity. A brilliant exploration of the most exotic objects in the universe by Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw. Viewed in this way, black holes are cosmic Rosetta Stones, allowing us to translate our observations into a new language that affords us a glimpse of the profoundest reason and most radiant beauty. But, by the end of this book, you will understand, why black holes are indeed the key to understanding the Universe. PROFESSOR JEFF FORSHAW is a theoretical physicist and Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester.

Professor Brian Cox CBE FRS is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science.Black holes are places in space and time where the laws of gravity, quantum physics and thermodynamics collide. billion light years away, the LIGO instruments have recently detected something that could be the closest a black hole gets to death. In summary, my take with books like these is if you are going to read almost 300 pages about black holes, the nature of space and time and the fabric of reality itself, you might as well learn at least a little bit of the true math and physics if even at a highly superficial level. There is no detail on the derivation (of course, because this is not a textbook), so we need to trust what the author said. I suppose owning a “Schrödinger’s cat: Wanted dead and alive” t-shirt didn’t actually qualify me to understand this book (although it certainly increased my nerd cred).

E (my level of enlightenment) was indeed directly related to the mass M (or density of my brain) multiplied by C squared (where C is the speed of light). This book, co-written with Jeff Forshaw, one of Cox's colleagues at the University of Manchester, reads for the most part like a dry textbook for undergraduates.Rather, we can describe a near-limitless range of natural phenomena, from the interior of a proton to the creation of galaxies, with apparently unreasonable efficiency using the language of mathematics.