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Books : reviews

Matthew Bothwell.
The Invisible Universe: why there's more to reality than meets the eye.
Oneworld. 2021

Since the dawn of our species, people have gazed in awe at the night sky. But for all the beauty and wonder of the stars, what we see with our eyes and conventional telescopes is only a tiny fraction of what’s out there. What wonders exist in the ‘Invisible Universe’?

Dr Matt Bothwell, Public Astronomer at Cambridge University, takes us on an extraordinary journey through the 99% of the cosmos we can’t see, revealing entirely new galaxies, cosmic prehistory, black holes and supernovae. In a scientific detective story thousands of years in the telling, he uncovers mysteries of the Universe as we have never seen them before.