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A fascinating and informative guide to the enduring mystery and magnificence of black holes(https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Jonas-Enander-Facing-Infinity-9781805464679). From the first 18th-century priest looking up at the night sky, noting that something extremely dark and exceptionally heavy was moving the stars, to the first actual photograph of a black hole 250 years later, Jonas Eander traveled the world, visiting telescopes and observatories, interviewing leading space researchers, and delving into archives to investigate how our relationship with black holes has changed over time. Along the way, Enander explores how our desire to answer the question of the origin of the universe inadvertently led to the invention of Wi-Fi and the calibration of the Global Positioning System (GPS); how looking outward has given us crucial evidence of our impact on climate change, which may hold the key to the future of all humanity; How colonialism ignited the race of discovery, affecting the most vulnerable groups and creating a ripple effect that is still felt to this day. Find out how black holes work, where they come from, and what their role is in the universe. How do we know we're on a 230-million-year journey around the Milky Way, with a supermassive black hole at its center? How can we determine that the mass of this black hole is equivalent to the mass of four million suns? What happens when black holes collide? Do we live inside a black hole? How do we know all this? Based on interviews with more than 20 leading black hole researchers, including several Nobel laureates, Confronting Infinity deconstructs the most surprising science, keeping the spirit of wonder alive, in a captivating and engaging journey into the universe's greatest mysteries.