FACING THE DARKNESS

Mörkret och människan – Om svarta hål och vår plats på jorden
Facing The Darkness – Black holes and our place on earth

By Jonas Enander

BLACK HOLES: ONE of the greatest mysteries of the universe. A kind of internal collapse, a place where matter travels to die, almost impossible to study. But the more we learn about what black holes really are, the more we learn about our own origins and our place on Earth and in the universe.

JONAS ENANDER HAS travelled the world, visited telescopes and observatories, interviewed world-leading space scientists and dug deep into the archives to investigate how our relationship with black holes has changed over the years. Facing the Darkness is a kind of travelogue in time and space that is as much about the research as about the people behind it, from Tycho Brahe to today’s Nobel Prize winners. It is a spellbinding and almost existential reflection on light and darkness, creation and destruction, life and death.