Show Notes
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984899791?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Black-Hole-Survival-Guide-Janna-Levin.html
- Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/black-hole-survival-guide-unabridged/id1534076946?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree
- eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Black+Hole+Survival+Guide+Janna+Levin+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/1984899791/
#eventhorizon #spaghettification #gravitationaltimedilation #spacetimecurvature #blackholesingularity #BlackHoleSurvivalGuide
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin is a short work of popular astrophysics that explains black holes by asking a concrete question: what would happen to a person who fell into one. Levin, a physicist and astronomy professor, combines scientific explanation with an unusually direct thought experiment, moving from the exterior of a black hole to the event horizon and then toward the interior. The book is not a technical textbook or a general survey of cosmology. Its purpose is narrower: to make the physics of black holes intelligible through the imagined experience of encounter, descent, distortion, and irreversible capture. Along the way, it introduces relativity, gravity, spacetime curvature, tidal forces, time dilation, and the limits of current theory. The result is a compact guide for non-specialists that treats black holes as both physical objects and conceptual tests for how science understands space, time, matter, and observation.