Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Magazine will be familiar with many of the 42 essays collected here, while newcomers will profit from Tyson's witty and entertaining description of being pulled apart atom by atom into a black hole, and other, closer-to-earth, and cheerier, topics. In the last section the author gives his take on the hot subject of intelligent design. He tackles popular myths (is the sun yellow?) and takes movie directors-most notably James Cameron-to task for spectacular goofs. Two of Tyson’s other books are the playful and informative Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller, and The Pluto Files. Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably the foremost expert for bringing difficult material to a general audience and 'Death by Black Hole' is no exception. Tyson doesn't restrict his musings to astrophysics, but wanders into related fields like relativity and particle physics, which he explains just as clearly as he does Lagrangian points, where we someday may park interplanetary filling stations. With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tysonone of our foremost thinkers on all things spaceilluminates the past. If anyone can claim the title of astronomy’s Great Communicator since the death of Carl Sagan over a decade ago, it’s Neil deGrasse Tyson (see Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio. Norton and Company, 2007 hardcover, 384 pp. some of which were later published in his books Death by Black Hole (2007) and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017). Tyson takes readers on an exciting journey from Earth's hot springs, where extremophiles flourish in hellish conditions, to the frozen, desolate stretches of the Oort Cloud and the universe's farthest reaches, in both space and time. Bringing together more than forty of Tysons favorite essays, Death by Black Hole explores a myriad of cosmic topics, from the movie industrys feeble efforts. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandries by Neil deGrasse Tyson W. What would it feel like if your spaceship were to venture too close to the black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way? According to astrophysicist Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, size does matter when it comes to black holes, although the chances of your surviving the encounter aren't good in any case.

Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson