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What Is Inside a Black Hole?
Series: Brief Answers, Big Questions
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'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out'
What is inside a black hole?
Is time travel possible?
Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. In What Is Inside a Black Hole? Hawking takes us on a journey to the outer reaches of our imaginations, exploring the science of time travel and black holes.
'The best most mind-bending sort of physics' The Times
Brief Answers, Big Questions: this stunning paperback series offers electrifying essays from one of the greatest minds of our age, taken from the original text of the No. 1 bestselling Brief Answers to the Big Questions.
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What Is Inside a Black Hole?
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781529392364
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 110.0mm
Height: 176.0mm
Weight: 60g
Pages: 80
About the Author
STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller and the Sunday Times bestseller Brief Answers to the Big Questions. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universes, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures. He died on 14 March, 2018.
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