A Brief History of Black Holes

I've followed Dr Becky's YouTube channel for some time, so I was delighted to discover she had written a book on Black Holes. I grabbed a copy of the audio-book. I often do this with non-fiction, especially when the author does their own narration.

It turns out that black holes are not the horrors of the universe as we have been lead to believe. What they actually are, I'll leave up to you to discover. No spoilers!

I found this to be a wonderful journey down the rabbit hole of black holes and our current understanding of them, described in a way the average Jo can understand. I found it both enlightening and thoroughly enjoyable.

From understanding why our sun shines until the death of a black hole. The book truly brings you to a journey of our understanding about black holes, a short documentary of humanity, trying to understand one of the most misterious, fascinating objects in the universe; hence, the title of the book: The Brief History of Black Holes.

The author is able to balance the trade-off between simplicity of the concept and complexity of the details. The passages are easy to understand and yet the physics behind are actually not a trivial things to follow. In some chapters, you can feel the excitement of the author through her words; it is contagious and excites me too! I trully enjoyed reading this book.