Black Holes And Beyond by Werner Brückner - HTML preview

Epilogue

Could the Universe with its embedded black holes, really have appeared from nothing? A creation in a process, "ex nihilo" is essentially impossible.  In physics ,there usually is a reason for everything .  Black holes play an important role in that act of creation and will retain all of their secrets because of their containing densely compacted matter. For that very reason they will remain at the forefront of research for a long  time. As well as dealing with black holes, Astrophysicists answer questions other than those concerning matter under extreme conditions. They will also answer many of mankind‘s great puzzles, questions like  "Who are we and where are we going?"

With the definition of black hole, two new terms entered the language, becoming widely used: The Event Horizon and The Singularity. 

Perhaps the Singularity is a metaphor for God? If, in years to come, we finally succeed with the assisstance of advanced telescopes, in gaining a deeper and wider view into Space, we may also find ourselves looking back in Time. Then, maybe we will be able to look back far enough to see the Universe and its early beginnings, its actual birth.

 We will then perhaps see the very Big Bang itself. Thus, the world and how it was about 13.7 billion years ago, may be revealed.  Looking in every direction, we would have a view into the singularity and able to report that perhaps we may even have seen God.

Some Books:

Stephen Hawking "A Brief History of Time", Bantam

Books

L.Susskind&J.Lindesay: "An Introduction to Black

Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution",

Amazon

J.P. McEvoy&Zarate "Quantum-Theory" , Icon Books

Ltd.

Brian Greene "The Elegant Universe", W.Norton&Com

Ltd.

Carl Sagan "Cosmos" - Amazon

Caleb Scharf "Gravity´s Engines: The Other Side of

Black Holes", Amazon

Some Print Magazines:

UK´s astronomy magazine: "Astronomy Now"

UK´s astronomy magazine: "Sky at Night"

US magazine: "Sky & Telescope"

US magazine: "Astronomy"

German magazine: Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 5/2013:

"Giganten im All"

Some Internet Links:

www.eso.org/public/

www.eso.org/public/news/eso1332/ 

www.hubblesite.org  - page of NASA

http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/large-hadron-collider

www.skyandtelescope.com  - american magazine

www.lhc-facts.ch/img/news2013/blackhole.gif

www.universetoday.com

www.astronomynow.com

www.skyatnight.com

www.skyandtelescope.com

observatories, especially the VSW Munich.