conciselyverbose reviewed Einstein's Shadow by Seth Fletcher
Review of "Einstein's Shadow" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I wanted to like this, but it just never really grabbed me. The coverage of the physics seems too surface level, the overarching narrative was basically “this guy thought imaging a black hole would be good but it costs money and he thought he was more important than anyone else”, and it really didn’t even explain the questions they thought the images would answer particularly well.
It’s not terrible. Most of the science is accurate enough and it does show some of the technical difficulties of capturing distant space objects. But I can’t recommend it unless you’re really interested in black holes, and if you are I’d look at Hawking’s Black Hole book (which I haven’t read yet) or the Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind (which I have and enjoyed) first.