Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin
The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history.Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less than a few tenths of a second to perform this measureme...
Publish Date
2017
April 17
First Published in 2016
Goodreads rating
3.73
ISBN
9781847924193
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Jul 07, 2021
Off the top of my head, here are three of my favorites (not so new, though): Black hole blues, by @jannalevin. Lab girl, Hope Jahren. Disturbing the universe, by Freeman Dyson. – source