We have a picture where the interior of the black hole becomes — in some sense — the same place as the exterior. There is no detail on the derivation (of course, because this is not a textbook), so we need to trust what the author said. There’s time dilation, as well as the twin paradox – I liked the idea that you can “gain time” compared with stationary observers while accelerating, but this also can cut you off from some regions of spacetime (now some ideas in Death's End by Liu Cixin make more sense! Whether on stage, television or in a podcast, Brian Cox is one of the most approachable science popularisers alive today.

It was a very pleasant surprise, as I found myself working hard to keep up with the author as he took Penrose diagrams in a new direction, and explosed the Information Paradox and other black hole basics in new ways. But for a while, I got hung up on proposed visual observations in the book and therefore somewhere had misunderstood. The author starts from a simple theoretical eternal non-spinning black hole, Schwarzschild's solution of Einstein's General Relativity.We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. And so quantum mechanics allows for this property where things can be related to each other — connected together, if you like. Black holes are places in space and time where the laws of gravity, quantum physics and thermodynamics collide. So if I finish the book and I still don't understand the universe, they're going to tell me it's my fault. As a science book, I'm sure this must be a remarkable and accurate piece, but as a popular science book, it must be considered something of a failure.

Obviously I know Cox is a great science communicator and his previous books with Forshaw have been really well received. It's time to explore our universe's most mysterious inhabitants Black Holes At the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun. Minkowski spacetime diagrams are however touched upon very briefly, and meeting them again in the later chapters I was a bit confused. Hawking discovered that when you put those two frameworks together, there's a prediction, which is black holes have a temperature.All of this disregards entirely that I am already sort of tied up with a pseudo-career in a different scientific discipline and do not relish the thought of attending university again.