Black Holes and Time Warps

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (1994) is a popular science book by Kip Thorne. It provides a good illustrated overview of the history and development of black hole theory up until the early 1990s.

The main part of the book is just over five hundred pages long. The remaining ninety pages provides several sets of reference indexes for people, papers and technical footnotes. It is available in paperback and has a foreword by Stephen Hawking.

This book is unique in combining understandable scientific information with the colorful history of its discovery, and inspires by reminding us of the potential of humanity.