Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes
Chris Impey
Our ideas about black holes are mostly based on popular myths and a few well-known scientific facts. Describing the history of black hole research, Chris Impey easily debunks the most common misconceptions and opens the door to the mysterious world of distant stars and their invisible but powerful companions. In this book, the history of astrophysics is presented as a series of amazing discoveries made by several generations of passionate and talented scientists who were able to describe the past, present and future of outer space, calculate the approximate location of the nearest black holes and predict what awaits the Universe in millions of years.
