Black Holes
- Authors
- Latta, Sara
- Publisher
- Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
- Tags
- astronautics , young adults , matter , telescopes in space , planets , twenty-first century books , science , nature & how it works , nature , albert einstein , telescopes , invention and technology , stars and galaxies , newton's laws of motion , space science , galaxy , aeronautics , universe , technology , black holes: the weird science of the most mysterious objects in the universe , mass , gravity , outer space , telescope , science exploration , astronomy , stem , and how it works , astronomer , relativity , young adult nonfiction , big bang theory , nonfiction , einstein , science and technology , newton's laws , milky way , physics , tools and technology , scientist , solar system , astrophysics , space exploration , space , black holes , stars , sara latta , star , isaac newton , earth and space science , scientists
- ISBN
- 9781512415681
- Date
- 2017-08-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 7.88 MB
- Lang
- en
In 2015 two powerful telescopes detected something physicists had been seeking for more than one hundred years—gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. This announcement thrilled the scientific community. Since the eighteenth century, astronomers have predicted the existence of massive, invisible stars whose gravity would not let anything—even light—escape. In the twenty-first century, sophisticated technologies are bringing us closer to seeing black holes in action. Meet the scientists who first thought of black holes hundreds of years ago, and learn about contemporary astrophysicists whose work is radically shaping how we understand black holes, our universe, and how it originated.