A brief history of black holes. And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

Discover the secrets of the strangest phenomena in the universe with YouTube's most popular astrophysicist. In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics. A cosmic tale of discovery, Becky explains why black holes aren't really "black", that you never ever want to be "spaghettified", how black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers and why, beyond the event horizon, the future is a direction in space rather than in time.
Told with humour and informed by cutting-edge research, this captivating book reveals why the most profound questions about our universe lie hidden inside black holes.