The book talks about completely unusual celestial bodies discovered by scientists in recent decades, about black holes, the birth of galaxies and nebulae, about certain features of the developing Universe. Igor Dmitrievich Novikov . At the Institute of Space Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences I. Novikov deals with many problems of the Universe . He conducted an important theoretical study of black holes . In addition, he pointed to the events taking place in the Universe, which helped astrophysicists to open these black holes. and . Novikov is the author of many popular science brochures and books, which have been repeatedly noted at all-Union competitions for the best popular book about science and translated into many foreign languages. Black Holes and the Universe is his first book in the Eureka series.