Black Holes by John Taylor

Black Holes

The End of the Universe?

by John Taylor

Book Club Associates,1974, ISBN 0285620983, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners  (see photographs)

“In this authoritative  book Professor Taylor tries to explain what the black hole is like and how disturbing its existence is to mankind, in a language accessible to the layman.
A black hole is formed when a very massive star has used up all its fuel and cannot stop itself collapsing ever inwards.  This collapsed star attracts any light shone at it, and prevents it ever escaping.  There are very likely many such collapsed objects throughout the heavens, but even the presence of one, would seriously disturb man’s aspirations for the future.
The fate of objects, however distanced from the black hole, is ultimately to fall into it, and at a later time to be crushed to death at its centre.  Not only would all mankind and all of the universe be ultimately destroyed in this way, but so would mankind, aspirations for immortality.”