The Invisible Universe: Why There’s More to Reality than Meets the Eye

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into the ‘prehistory’ of the universe, Bothwell shows us the universe as we’ve never seen it before - literally.

Humans are visual creatures and all over the world they have been joyfully stargazing since the dawn of our species. But for all the beauty and wonder of the cosmos we can see, when we look with just our eyes we are seeing and appreciating only a tiny fraction of it. What is the cosmos beyond the phenomena we can see, from black holes to supernovas? How different does the invisible universe look from the home we thought we knew? Dr Matt Bothwell takes us on a journey through the full spectrum of light, revealing what it tells us about the mysteries of the universe.

This book is a guide to the 99% of cosmic reality we can’t see - the universe that is right in front of our eyes, if only our eyes could see it. It is also the endpoint of a scientific detective story thousands of years in the telling. It is a tour through our invisible universe.