I'm a Black Hole
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2024
Summary
Journey to the event horizon in this playful, mind-bending introduction to one of our universe’s most mysterious marvels, narrated by a black hole itself.
Lurking at the centre of our galaxy and in the furthest reaches of space are black holes. Once unseeable and unknowable, these cosmic devourers – sometimes born from the death of stars – swallow even light itself. But what exactly is a black hole? And how do we even know they exist?
In a kid-friendly, rhymin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529512205 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529512204 |
| Author: | Jessica Lanan, Dr. Eve M. Vavagiakis |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 222mm x 266mm |
| Series: | MIT Kids Press |
| Audience Age: | 7-9 |
Jessica Lanan
Dr. Eve M. Vavagiakis is a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University. A childhood space enthusiast, she now works in experimental cosmology as a part of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, CCAT-prime, CMB-S4 and Simons Observatory collaborations to build instrumentation and study the oldest light in the universe. She also codirects the high-energy physics blog ParticleBites and is the author of the first title in the Meet the Universe series, I’m a Neutrino.
Jessica Lanan is an award-winning author, illustrator and painter. She is the illustrator of The Lost Package by Richard Ho and Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet by Curtis Manley. Her author-illustrator debut, The Fisherman and the Whale, was awarded the 2020 Bull-Bransom Award for wildlife art. Jessica Lanan aims to help young readers discover the beauty and diversity of their world by creating picture books that are inspiring, accessible, and memorable.
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