Thanks for the recommendation. I watched a bunch of episodes and it is definitely great.

Is there a particular "science for the lay-person" type of book you'd recommend, that discusses things like this without requiring the reader to know the math?

I loved books like A Brief History of Time, Cosmos, and Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne, for example, but I'd love to read more about black holes (time and space switch inside the event horizon??), quasi-stars, quark stars, proton structure (what does it mean to have force-carriers inside the proton that would have individual masses greater than that of the proton?), etc..

There seem to be so many books out there on these topics that I have no idea how to tell which ones might be what I'm really looking for.