Great Mysteries in Astrophysics: A guide to what we don’t know

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This book is intended to highlight the biggest gaps in our understanding of the universe. Because a problem cannot be solved until one really understands what needs to be solved, this book aims to clarify what exactly it is that we do not understand in our current picture of the universe and the objects it contains. After briefly describing how astronomers see and gather information from our universe, the book will describe topics where our knowledge is glaringly incomplete - dark matter, dark energy, the Hubble constant/tension, deaths of massive stars, mysteries associated with black holes, neutron stars, binary/multiple systems, and more.

The book is intended for both general audiences, students, and researchers in other fields. Each chapter will give a summary of the state of knowledge in a particular astrophysics research area and then proceed to explain where the mysteries lie - where we have new territory to explore and much to learn.