Volume 24, Number 15 · September 29, 1977
The Holes in Black Holes
By Martin Gardner
The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes
by Isaac Asimov
Walker and Co., 204 pp., $8.95
Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes
by Robert M. Wald
University of Chicago Press, 152 pp., $10.95
The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics
by Nigel Calder
Viking Press, 199 pp., $14.95
Space and Time in the Modern Universe
by P.C.W. Davies
Cambridge University Press, 232 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Ten Faces of the Universe
by Fred Hoyle
W.H. Freeman and Co., 207 pp., $6.95 (paper)
The Iron Sun: Crossing the Universe Through Black Holes
by Adrian Berry
E.P. Dutton, 176 pp., $7.95
White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in the Universe
by John Gribbin
Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede, 296 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Black holes are hot. Although this is literally true (according to the latest theories) of some black holes, I mean they are hot as a topic. The above books are only fragments of this year's crop that deal entirely or in part with black holes. Why such obsessive interest in astronomical objects that may not even exist, and that in any case cannot be fully understood without knowing general relativity theory and quantum mechanics?
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