Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

1 A Brief History of Black Holes

2 Unifying Space and Time

3 Bringing Infinity to a Finite Place

4 Warping Spacetime

5 Into the Black Hole

6 White Holes and Wormholes

7 The Kerr Wonderland

8 Real Black Holes from Collapsing Stars

9 Black Hole Thermodynamics

10 Hawking Radiation

11 Spaghettified and Vaporised

12 The Sound of One Hand Clapping

13 The World as a Hologram

14 Islands in the Stream

15 The Perfect Code

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Index

About the Authors

About the Publisher