Bernard Burke/Francis Graham-Smith: An introduction to radio-astronomy. Cambridge UP 1997. 0-521-55454-3. $75. 5400 Marcus Chown: The biggest telescope in the world. New Scientist 28 August 1993, 7. The $85 million Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) will allow radio astronomers to observe details in astronomical objects more than 1000 times finer than any that can be seen by optical telescopes, for example the jets fo material coming from the cores of quasars, where giant black holes are believed to lurk. The 10 25-metre radio dishes of the VLBA are scattered across North America with outlying stations in Hawaii and the Virgin Islands. John Kraus: Radio astronomy. Cygnus-Quasar, 710p. $ 40.