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Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos

by Caleb Scharf

Scientific American: Farrar. 2012. 272p. illus. index. ISBN 9780374114121. $26.

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Black holes have always gripped the imagination, and now we are discovering that they may dramatically shape the universe around them. Scharf, director of the multidisciplinary Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, brings this new picture to life for both general readers and science buffs.

Reviewed by Susannah Hamm , Mar 01, 2013

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