Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Two of Tyson’s other books are the playful and informative Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller, and The Pluto Files. Magazine will be familiar with many of the 42 essays collected here, while newcomers will profit from Tyson's witty and entertaining description of being pulled apart atom by atom into a black hole, and other, closer-to-earth, and cheerier, topics. With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tysonone of our foremost thinkers on all things spaceilluminates the past. In the last section the author gives his take on the hot subject of intelligent design. Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries is a humorous collection of his essays describing the many mysteries of the universe. In Death by Black Hole, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the science of black holes and related phenomena, such as Hawking Radiation, time dilation, and the Big Bang. He tackles popular myths (is the sun yellow?) and takes movie directors-most notably James Cameron-to task for spectacular goofs. Explore Neil deGrasse Tysons discoveries. Tyson doesn't restrict his musings to astrophysics, but wanders into related fields like relativity and particle physics, which he explains just as clearly as he does Lagrangian points, where we someday may park interplanetary filling stations. Tyson takes readers on an exciting journey from Earth's hot springs, where extremophiles flourish in hellish conditions, to the frozen, desolate stretches of the Oort Cloud and the universe's farthest reaches, in both space and time.

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What would it feel like if your spaceship were to venture too close to the black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way? According to astrophysicist Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, size does matter when it comes to black holes, although the chances of your surviving the encounter aren't good in any case. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries Neil deGrasse Tyson 4.10 29,827 ratings1,457 reviews A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist.

Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson