About the book: 2008 / "Eureka" - the last book of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), published during the writer’s lifetime . In this work, no less paradoxical and surprising than his works of art, Edgar Allan Poe, relying only on “pure” intuition, anticipated the discovery of “black holes” and offered the first plausible explanation for the Albers paradox (why the sky is not evenly illuminated at night, while time as the uniform distribution of stars in the Universe). E. Poe called his book a poem and a work of art, not science, but at the same time he considered it the greatest revelation that humanity has ever heard.