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Black Hole Survival Guide Hardcover – November 10, 2020

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From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space—an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science.

"[Levin will] take you on a safe black hole trip, an exciting travel story enjoyed from your chair’s event horizon.” —Boston Globe

Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensible but also, and perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. In this book, she helps us to understand and find delight in the black hole—perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists—illustrated with original artwork by American painter and photographer Lia Halloran. Levin takes us on an evocative exploration of black holes, provoking us to imagine the visceral experience of a black hole encounter. She reveals the influence of black holes as they populate the universe, sculpt galaxies, and even infuse the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging, and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative—it is, as well, a wonderful read from first to last.

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"[Levin’s] writing is clear and so colloquial that it sometimes seems as though she’s right there chatting with you, telling a story in a conversation so compelling that you hardly notice the complexity of the actual physics . . . Not only is Levin a brilliant physicist, she’s a gifted writer, sensitive to language and its nuances . . . [She is] an extravagant storyteller with a vivid imagination and an acute intellect who is willing to take you on a safe black hole trip, an exciting travel story enjoyed from your chair’s event horizon.”—Boston Globe

"In prose that revels in the immensity and dispassion of the barely known universe — and bolstered by Lia Halloran’s illustrations of strange celestial shapes and astronauts floating in inky voids — Levin makes space sound like a somewhat reasonable place."—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Warm, smart prose inviting readers to share her fascination with these cosmic phenomena. Enhanced by wonderful artwork, Levin’s book glides through the universe, from relativity and quantum mechanics to the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda galaxy. Stirring imagination and curiosity about the mysteries of black holes, Levin makes a case that they are a fodder for fantasy”—The National Book Review

"Vivid . . . Readers couldn’t hope for a more fascinating intro to a family of cosmic objects whose existence promises still more wonders to be discovered."—Publishers Weekly

"Armchair astronomers will find this a fascinating and illuminating read."—Booklist

"A short, lively account of one of the oddest and most intriguing topics in astrophysics."—Kirkus Reviews

"Engrossing . . . Levin describes the subject matter in an accessible writing style that is both entertaining and poetic . . . Recommended for nonscientists and those seeking to understand the cosmos better."—Library Journal

"A comprehensible exploration of that which cannot be physically explored . . . a vibrant, illustrated text."—Shelf Awareness

"This slender volume will get the reader quickly up to speed when it comes to black holes, without equations or torrents of jargon."—The Space Review

“Beguiling . . . Levin writes authoritatively and evocatively with a warm, poetic voice . . . The 23 paintings that Halloran made to be interspersed among its pages add to the imagination-stirring allure . . . There are lighter parts too, and the surreality at play in the mix of the writing and the art gives Black Hole Survival Guide an idiosyncratic spirit.”—Art News

About the Author

JANNA LEVIN is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College. She is also director of sciences at Pioneer Works, a center for arts and sciences in Brooklyn. Her previous books include Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, How the Universe Got Its Spots, and a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham Prize. She was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in New York.

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Chapter 1

Entrance

Black holes are nothing.

Black holes are special because there’s nothing there. There is no thing there.

I probably accepted black holes whole, as complete conceptual entities, before I was able to doubt, before I had intuition to combat. They were fodder for fantasy. I received the fact of their existence without resistance. Gullible and without prejudice, I could see the plausibility, appreciate the curiosity, their peculiarity, accept the universe as it was presented. Maybe it was the same for you. It’s very unlikely that this is your first encounter with the astrophysical oddity that is a black hole, the warp in spacetime so strong that not even light can escape.

I don’t know what it was like where you were, but I had a pretty unspectacular view, astronomically speaking, out of my childhood bedroom. I would edge to the foot of the bed and strain to look at the sky through the window frame, a portal to a green yard below, the seams between neighboring plots demarcated by shrubs or trees, patchwork real estate scooped together under a rounded cap of atmosphere. The ground would darken first, then the trees, but the dome would hang on to the vaguest splattering of light for the longest. Ours was not an urban burnished sky, but still light pollution diluted the view that I stared into night after night. I never expected the vista to improve or expected anything new, only the usual indistinct few bright speckles, like rain stains on a windshield.

I don’t remember when the feeling started, the first time that longing tugged at me, but before I even recognized the desire, I pined to know what else was out there, like a restless dog pacing at the door. I wanted to be free of ordinary confines. To fly there and explore. Frustrated by the fact of the heaviness of my feet on the Earth, striding at the base of the sky, restless to be let in.
I wonder how many of us inherited this longing, millennium after millennium, generation after generation, child after child bound to the crust, rapt at the illusion of a ceiling, compelled to crack through and defy our puniness and our limitations.

As a kid, I never imagined I would become a scientist. If you had told me I would become a physicist, I’m sure I would have been offended. Scientists build bombs and memorize equations. I’m not sure if I acquired that cliché or if the stereotype was one of my own invention—that scientists could not be creative, or just weren’t out of stubbornness. I didn’t understand the profound freedom of constrained creativity, visionary originality that explodes in the face of fundamental limits.

Limits have incited revolutions. The limit of the speed of light hinted at relativity. Einstein fantasized about riding a light beam and imagined that time stood still. He gave up the absolutism of an inflexible space and time in favor of the absolutism of the speed of light. That concession forced us to reconceive of our universe as an impermanent, living process with an origin in a big bang, still expanding with the energy of creation, and home to extravagances like black holes.

The quantum revolution was incited in parallel by the limit imposed by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which asserts that particles as we thought we knew them do not exist. We are pressured to reimagine the fundamental nature of reality as an uncertain fog of possibilities, of particles that are there and not there. The pressure to yield to this seemingly terrible constraint guided us toward revelations that would otherwise have been unattainable. We rewrote reality in an astonishing new language. We have discovered quarks, photons, neutrinos, condensed matter, dead neutron stars, the Higgs boson, superconductors, and quantum computers in the most precisely tested paradigm in all of physics.

The computer revolution too was incited by a limit, an insurmountable limit to mathematical knowledge. The incompleteness theorems, which proved that there were mathematical facts that could never be proven, led Alan Turing to dream of artificial intelligence and biological machines. Turing proved that most facts about numbers are unknowable: there is an infinite list of irrational numbers with an infinite list of unpredictable digits. His musings led him to imagine a machine that one day will think and to the epiphany that, indeed, we are machines who think.

The severity of the constraints imposed by physical law and mathematical precision does not squash creativity. The limits are the scaffolding enabling creativity. Limits can be worthy adversaries that galvanize our best, most inventive, most agile natures. Before I succumbed to the seduction of the elegance and transcendence of limits, I did not understand the thrill of imagination crashing into truth.

As a student, not yet on a trajectory to become a scientist, I was nostalgic for that longing to leap into the atmospheric pool of blue midnight high out my window. I realized I missed that sensation, the urgent desire to leave the planet. Wherever I was by then, I was still under the same sky. From a slightly different perspective I trod at the foot of that blue dome, that overly lit blanched blue sky, and wanted in. Deterred by reality (we’ve never gone farther than the Moon), I redirected my focus down to the page, following mathematics to places our bodies couldn’t go. Mathematics alone cannot tell us what specifically is out there in our universe. The mathematics can speculate only about what is possible. And sometimes mathematics allows us to explore pure potential before any physical manifestations of that potential are discovered.

Black holes were like that, a purely mathematical construct on the page, benign in virtual form, in typescript on paper, unverified for decades, unaccepted for decades, absurd, maligned and denied by some great geniuses of the twentieth century, until physical evidence of real black holes in the galaxy was discovered. Find one just a few thousand light-years away—a light-year being the distance light can travel in a year, nearly 10 trillion kilometers, the distance you would travel driving at the average highway speed limit for 10 million years. Take a left at that yellow star and veer toward that star cluster. Wandering at the base of the sky, we are under them. We are above them. Black holes in their abiding darkness are scattered plentifully among the stars, which themselves are scattered plentifully, like somber glitter infiltrating the void. We are in orbit around one in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. We are pulled toward another in the Andromeda galaxy.

I want to influence your perception of black holes, to shuck away the husk a bit, get closer to their darkest selves, to marvel at their peculiarity and their prodigious character. We can take a road less traveled, follow a series of simple observations that culminate in an intuitive impression of the objects of our attention, which are not objects at all, not things in the conventional sense.

A friend takes me out in New York to discuss the essentials to include in a black hole survival guide. An accomplished science writer, he asks me to clarify: “Don’t I already know everything about black holes?”

“Do you know they are nothing?”

He looks at me unblinking for a long time, considering. He pauses to toss some salted peanuts into his mouth and while chewing he says, “I guess I don’t know anything about black holes.” Then slightly bemused at this realization, we eat the rest of the bar snacks and drink our wine while we talk about things more familiar.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf (November 10, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 052565822X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0525658221
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.34 x 0.62 x 6.58 inches

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I am an astrophysicist and writer. My favorite topics for research include black holes, the big bang, extra dimensions, and dark energy. These days I'm a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University in Manhattan. I'm also director of sciences at Pioneer Works, a center for art and ideas in Red Hook, Brooklyn. My latest book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, tracks the arduous campaign to detect gravitational waves. I hope you like it.

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David Hillstrom
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Having read numerous books on modern physics (written for lay readers), I confess that this one is the most fun and as well the clearest by far. That is not to say that Janna Levin’s book offers any final theories. We remain at a loss to sort out the conflict between relativity and quantum mechanics. Still, this books offers a great deal of insight into the remaining quandary.

I feel compelled to offer a sample of this quandary in the form of one of the poems from my recent collection under the title, De Rerum Natura: On Nature and Poetry.

A Singularity Weighs on Me

Not a singular thought or regret;
Rather a physicist’s dark gem,
The concept of infinitely
Tangled mass and energy
Shining solely inward, stealing away
To a black point. All and nothing.

Not a personal remorse,
Yet a gravity that quells my breath,
An avalanche burying my breast
In an arctic tundra of frozen
Rivers, arteries and veins,
Still blood and a silent heart.

No escape? Only brief life chances
Between a cosmic crunch and zero kelvin?
No third choice, just confrontation or solitude?
Sun Yat-sen or Lao Tzu?

A sly smile parts your lips.
A motile single-helix dances for a willing ovum.
A quantum fluctuation? No, but a New
World born of the sparkle in your eye.

Anyone who finds contemporary science fascinating and also enjoys poetry will find my book engaging. Those of us who have turned away from myths of the past and embraced scientific knowledge understand that beauty and mysteries still abound. Janna Levin’s book proves that conclusion, as I hope my own book does as well.

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Overall this was a great book, I learned some new interesting stuff and connected some dots about gravity and black holes. The illustrations were great. My main issue is with the size of the book. This is the smallest format I have ever seen - it fits in your small pocket. I do understand this was intentional (and in a way artistic), but I think this subject (as well as the illustrations) deserves a full-fledged book, and Janna can certainly pull it of. Because of its smallness the book lacked in the depth of explanations and often left me wanting more, or to continue on the line of thought the author was having. This is because the book raises some crucial questions in the topics like: information loss paradox, Hawking radiation and is there quantum gravity, all revolving around black holes, but it tends to stick to its very hypothetical survival format type guide, which is nice, but we all know how it ends (or do we?). The book explains just barely enough on the mentioned subjects (enough to continue with the hypothetical scenario), and it leaves a reader like me wanting more. I think the book should have had more emphasis on these essential topics, and more of the author's thoughts and ideas, especially because Jana has the ability to explain complex cutting-edge scientific topics in a presentable language that is easier to understand. I hope I can see something like that from Jana in the future. That said, chances are you will feel amazed and will definitely learn something from this book.

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Overall this was a great book, I learned some new interesting stuff and connected some dots about gravity and black holes. The illustrations were great. My main issue is with the size of the book. This is the smallest format I have ever seen - it fits in your small pocket. I do understand this was intentional (and in a way artistic), but I think this subject (as well as the illustrations) deserves a full-fledged book, and Janna can certainly pull it of. Because of its smallness the book lacked in the depth of explanations and often left me wanting more, or to continue on the line of thought the author was having. This is because the book raises some crucial questions in the topics like: information loss paradox, Hawking radiation and is there quantum gravity, all revolving around black holes, but it tends to stick to its very hypothetical survival format type guide, which is nice, but we all know how it ends (or do we?). The book explains just barely enough on the mentioned subjects (enough to continue with the hypothetical scenario), and it leaves a reader like me wanting more. I think the book should have had more emphasis on these essential topics, and more of the author's thoughts and ideas, especially because Jana has the ability to explain complex cutting-edge scientific topics in a presentable language that is easier to understand. I hope I can see something like that from Jana in the future. That said, chances are you will feel amazed and will definitely learn something from this book.

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Rowing in Eden
after gravity is weightlessness and the unbearable lightness of being
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Janna Levin is a Leonardo for the 21st century-astrophysicist and artist. Her clear exposition of current debates and quandaries in the scientific study of black holes is always clear-sighted about the paradoxes:
"Undermine notions of reality, but ameliorate the pain with a mind searing vision of nature."

Gorgeous scientific writing for the heart and the brain. Thank you Janna Levin

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Dr. Levin's clear, concise, and fun descriptions, with beautiful artwork, will lead you on a wondrous journey. Don't miss this fascinating book about black holes! (Hint: you will survive!)

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Charles F. Taylor
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The book has interesting art for illustrations and also very interesting ideas about black holes. However, I was often wanting more explanation and more detail about the physics. For instance, the issue of quantum entanglements was not clear to me from this book. (I had read Hawking too and did not get it--it's probably my problem) Further, she occasionally offered options or alternatives of what might happen without giving sufficient explanation for each alternative. Her discussion on SciFri offered more of that detail. I read a little in the book every day. The ideas she shared are very interesting--for instance, that time slows way down once one has passed through the event horizon. If you know more about physics than I, you would probably give this book a higher rating.

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Janna is such a fantastic writer, and a brilliant scientist. This is an accessible, fun little book that I wasn’t expecting to love so much! Additionally, there is so much attention to detail in the design and publication of the book. Add this to your reading list today!

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Llego en buen estado
Reviewed in Mexico on January 17, 2024
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Me encantó, llego en perfectas condiciones

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Leisure reading and subject interests

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This book is rigorous in the Science and yet understandable for the layman. Recommended for those with an interest in the incredible world of Black Holes where Physics is crushed.

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What a great way to help people understand a black hole- by describing what happens from a human point of view instead of just the physics. Easy to read and enjoyable.

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A description of the importance of BH very actual.
Reviewed in Italy on October 30, 2021
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The author talks about BH with an approach very interesting and a nice style., The arguments are developped with competence and attention. The way of exposing is clear and rich of humor. The book is short, but we must do as readers great attention to several particularities. In fact many aspects of the theory are surely not obvious.

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