Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Award-winning theoretical astrophysicist Janna Levin presents the definitive story of the Nobel Prize–winning discovery of gravitational waves in *Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space*. Predicted by Einstein in 1916, these elusive waves were finally detected a century later—evidence of colliding black holes—culminating a fifty-year scientific quest. Levin offers unparalleled access to the aspirations, challenges, and ultimate triumph of scientists like Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne, providing an absorbing portrait of modern scientific endeavor.

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