When and how were white dwarfs and pulsars discovered, rotating hundreds of times per second?
What is the contribution of female astronomers to these discoveries?
What would be your weight on the white dwarf of Sirius?
How and when were the mysterious quasars discovered, on the outskirts of our known Universe?
What are gravitational lenses?
How are massive amounts of plasma ejected from peculiar galaxies and superluminous quasars at speeds exceeding the speed of light?
How is self-similarity in jets that extend millions of light-years used to construct detailed models of them?
How do we detect black holes in the center of our Galaxy and in the centers of other galaxies?
How were gamma-ray bursts discovered and how can they be related to catastrophic extinctions of species on Earth?
What is the minimum width of the gravitational waves we detect?
How and where were noble metals gold and white gold of jewelry created?
How was the existence of black holes theoretically discovered by a soldier serving on the front lines of World War I?
How was a supermassive black hole photographed at the center of a distant galaxy?
How did a truck driver contribute significantly to one of the greatest discoveries in Cosmology?
How did a doctoral student predict nuclear fusion and the cosmic microwave background radiation?
How was all the matter in the Universe created in a few minutes after the Big Bang?
How was the oldest diffuse light in the Universe accidentally discovered?
How do galaxies coexist in clusters and superclusters, forming a cosmic web?
What is cosmic inflation?
What is the cause of the accelerated expansion of the Universe?
How is dark matter detected?
How is the existence of dark energy inferred in the Universe?
What are the limits of the observable Universe?
Why does the cosmological constant have a very low value? Is the Universe finite or infinite? Would we exist if the dimensions of spacetime were not 3+1?
Why is gravity's weakness unbearable in the Universe?
Why does the solar thermonuclear reactor have a carefully regulated performance?
Why is there exactly an equal number of positive and negative electric charges in the Universe?
Why, in the end, are we here as homo sapiens?

This book, unlike any other in the international literature, presents the fascinating discoveries of the last 100 years that answer these very questions.

It is introduced by Metropolitan of Mesogaea & Lavreotiki Nikolaos, an astrophysicist at Harvard, along with the author.