Jonas Enander has a PhD in physics and has participated in the construction of the IceCube observatory at the South Pole, Antarctica. He currently works as a science communicator and science journalist, and regularly writes about physics and astronomy in various popular science magazines. Facing The Darkness is his first book.
Jonas Enander
“Without assuming any prior knowledge on the subject, the book provides an in-depth and completely up-to-date picture of the black hole phenomenon and the main protagonists in the growth of knowledge. Enander describes even complicated phenomena in an easy-to-understand, clear and lively manner, and spices it up with thought-provoking, personal reflections and tantalising details, making the reading accessible, fun and exciting.”
– BTJ, Sweden“An A in physics is not a requirement to be able to understand the Facing the Darkness. It is as much a portrayal of the people behind the discoveries.”– Tidningen Vi, Sweden
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 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.
