Death By Black Hole

 

Book Review

            The book Death By Black Hole, by Neil DeGrasse Tyson was a both interesting and informative.  He explains a number of difficult astronomical concepts in a reader friendly manner.  Tyson also does his best to not only use terminology that an astrophysicist would understand.  Some of the topics he addressed were topics I had already been introduced to in a brief astronomy unit, which is not surprising considering how many topics he covers in the book.  My only complaint is that I found many topics were being repeated, which is bound to happen since all these chapters began first as separate essays.  I would recommend this book to anyone interested in astronomy or who would like to expand on the already existing astronomy knowledge they have.

            Some of the main topics addressed are:

-Humans and their technology                -Speed of Light

-Gravity                                                           -Stars

-Astronomy of the past                               - Planets