Black Hole Survival Guide
Like a brain-twisting introductory physics lecture, but in the best way
Janna Levin, as a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University, US, is the perfect tour guide to shepherd us through these topics in Black Hole Survival Guide. Over the course of only 160 pages – beautifully illustrated by Lia Halloran in a natural marriage of art and science – she takes us on a breakneck journey through the cosmos. We travel alongside a fellow astronaut named Alice, against whom we are compared and contrasted on various occasions, all in the spirit of learning and good natured competition. Indeed, many of the concepts upon which black hole theory is based on are innately contradictory, which means that they have to be described in terms of comparison – two objects relative to each other – and so I was grateful for Alice’s company throughout.