Light in the Darkness
Heino Falcke
- 09 juni 2022
- 9781472274533
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For readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole.
For readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole.
At an international press conference on April 10th 2019, award-winning astrophysicist Heino Falcke presented the first image ever captured of a black hole - a turning point in astronomy that Science magazine called the scientific breakthrough of the year. That photo was captured with the commitment of a team of astronomers who transformed the entire world into a global telescope. While this image achieved Falcke's goal in making a black hole, the greatest mystery in the universe, "visible" for the first time, he recognizes that the photo itself asks more questions for humanity than it answers.
From the first humans looking up at the night sky to modern astrophysics, from the study of black holes to the still unsolved mysteries of the universe, in Light in the Darkness Falcke ponders the big, pressing questions that present themselves when we look up at the stars.
Praise for LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS:
'You don't need to be a scientist to enjoy this clearly written book - the author offers a broader perspective on the motives that drive us to seek understanding of the cosmos and our place in it '
SIR MARTIN REES, Astronomer Royal
'Falcke isn't only a fantastic scientist, [he's] also a gifted storyteller'
NEW SCIENTIST (Dutch edition)
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As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black Holes
For readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole.
10th April 2019: a global sensation. Heino Falcke, a man "working at the boundaries of his discipline and therefore at the limits of the universe" had used a network of telescopes spanning the entire planet to take the first picture of a black hole.
Light in the Darkness examines how mankind has always looked to the skies, mapping the journey from millennia ago when we turned our gaze to the heavens, to modern astrophysics. Heino Falcke and Jorg Romer entertainingly and compellingly chart the breakthrough research of Falcke's team, an unprecedented global community of international colleagues developing a telescope complex enough to look directly into a black hole - a hole where light vanishes, and time stops.
What does this development mean? Is this the beginning of a new physics? What can we learn from this about God, the world, and ourselves? For Falcke, astrophysics and metaphysics, science and faith, do not exclude one another. Black Hole is both a plea for curiosity and humility; it's interested in both what we know, and the mysteries that remain unsolved.