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    Dec 17, 2020 4 minutes

    Black Hole Survival Guide

    Janna Levin Bodley Head £9.99 • HB

    We all love black holes. There’s something captivating about these mysterious, scary objects that can rip every particle in our body apart should we get too close. But did you know that black holes, quite literally, “are nothing”? This wonderful statement by Janna Levin, towards the end of the first chapter of Black Hole Survival Guide, sets the scene for her new book.

    Reading on, we are given all the information we currently know about black holes, as well as some conjecture. Early chapters explore the nature of gravity, time, the event horizon and what it would mean should you cross it. There’s a chapter devoted to astrophysics, discussing

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