Black Hole

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
$15.95
the book talks about alot of facts focusing much on the big bang. But if your thinking it's about black holes no. you are mistaken.
In fact he dedicated one chapter at the end of the book to talk in specific about black holes titled ( death by black holes).
though, he mentioned them alot in other chapters just because the context requires that.
again don't be misled by the title.
but still it's really a great book. and yeah as others said he rambles too much and that's why my rating is 4 not 5.

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
$18.95
In the same vein as Stephen Hawkins' "A Brief History of Time," (and with even more care) here Professor Kip Thorne takes us on an eventful behind the scenes ride through the arcane theories composing the post-Einstein revolution, and inside the minds of its key revolutionaries. Clearly, the afterglow of Einstein's theories is just beginning to be fully felt and appreciated.

Concepts such as black holes, wormholes, singularities, and time machines, ideas some of which Einstein himself had difficulty embracing, and which were once thought to be the province only of science fiction, here are carefully explained in non-mathematical terms and shown to be fully a part of the emerging implications of Einstein's deep and profound theories.

In short, this book tells superbly the story of Einstein's revolution and how its effects have changed our view of space and time, and the remarkable consequences of these effects and changes, most of which are still being unraveled. This is an altogether fascinating account, written by the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology, someone closely involved with the ensuing post-Einsteinian developments. Professor Thorne keeps us spell-bound as he tells the story in simple non-technical language of the struggles and eventual success in our search for a clearer understanding of what are possibly the most mysterious and difficult objects and concepts in the Universe.

Few books have been as successful in reducing the deeply complex concepts of advance Physics to commonplace understanding as Professor Thorne has done here. My hat is off to him for a fine effort, which even fifteen years later is still fresh: Touch���, and five stars.

Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity
$70.00
A book I really wouldn't have thought could have been written. There are a lot of books on general relativity at the superficial level, call these books 'mathless.' There are monumental tomes aimed at the graduate student level, call these books 'tensor calculus.' Here is a book exquisitely positioned between these others. The student will need to have had differential calculus, and perhaps a bit of basic physics, and with these he will get a pretty good, introductory understanding of General Relativity.

The real key to this book is that it explains a lot, but then it open up a bunch of other questions, questions that we really haven't answered yet -- things like dark matter, dark energy, accelerating expansion of the universe, and more.

The book ends with: 'How can physics live up to its true greatness except by a new revolution in outlook which dwarfs all past revolutions? And when it comes, will we not say to each other, Oh, how beautiful and simple it all is! How could we ever have missed it so long.'

That's just the awe, the vision, that we want new and budding physicists to have.

National Geographic: Monster Black Holes
$19.98
There is some really interesting info in this film, if you can stay awake long enough to watch it. Somehow their delivery is about like reading a computer manual.
Get some extra strong black coffee and watch it. If you can stay awake long enough to watch it all, it will give you plenty of interesting things to think about later on.