Dr. Becky - Invidious

Dr. Becky

Your friendly neighbourhood astrophysicist. I'm Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me!

I have also written a few books. My latest, "A Brief History of Black Holes", is available in hardback, e-book and audio (which I narrated myself!)

My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.

Channel art by Megan Smethurst: www.instagram.com/megansmethurst_gdesign/

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14:54

MORE evidence AGAINST dark matter? | What does the GAIA data actually show?

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Has JWST found supermassive DARK MATTER stars?

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27:47

JWST finds WATER where PLANETS are forming around a star | Night Sky News Aug 2023

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16:10

The Final Parsec Problem: do SUPERMASSIVE black holes ever MERGE?

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Shared 1 year ago

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11:58

Oppenheimer: the first to predict BLACK HOLES exist mathematically

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Shared 1 year ago

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17:35

Has JWST shown the Universe is TWICE as old as we think?!

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Shared 1 year ago

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31:03

JWST finds most distant growing SUPERMASSIVE black hole | Night Sky News July 2023

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5:51

A week in the life of an ASTROPHYSICIST at a conference on GALACTIC BARS

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Shared 1 year ago

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24:43

Astrophysicist explains big GRAVITATIONAL WAVE discovery! Are they NEW PHYSICS or merging SMBHs?

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19:32

First JWST TRAPPIST-1 results! Not what we expected for TRAPPIST-1c

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Shared 1 year ago

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14:55

The Euclid Space Telescope: tackling dark matter and dark energy mysteries

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Shared 1 year ago

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27:17

New study claims Betelgeuse supernova IMMINENT (decades not centuries!) | Night Sky News June 2023

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20:56

The plan for JWST's second year of observations! | Cycle 2 successful science proposals

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Shared 1 year ago

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32:21

THREE new JWST results! Two exoplanets and a protocluster | Night Sky News May 2023

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10:27

A star-planet system with a COHERENT radio signal from an AURORA

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19:37

JWST's "too massive" galaxy problem solved?! | A non-universal IMF

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Shared 1 year ago

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18:22

Black hole image gets AI upgrade (Messier 87* Event Horizon Telescope)

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Shared 1 year ago

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29:38

A supermassive black hole EJECTED from its galaxy?! Plus the B.O.A.T GRB | Night Sky News April 2023

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14:56

We don't know WHY Jupiter's Great Red Spot is RED

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Shared 1 year ago

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14:10

An ULTRAMASSIVE black hole has been discovered in A BRAND NEW WAY

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Shared 1 year ago

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10:32

JWST has taken the most DETAILED spectrum of an exoplanet EVER

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Shared 1 year ago

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Will asteroid 2023 DW hit Earth on Valentine's Day 2046?! | Night Sky News March 2023

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How do we know how old the Milky Way is?

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Shared 1 year ago

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14:08

JWST has found MASSIVE galaxies in the early Universe which we can't explain

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Shared 1 year ago

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14:28

Why is this KILONOVA SPHERICAL (and not donut shaped)?!

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Shared 1 year ago

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38:28

Evidence for black holes being dark energy?! | Night Sky News February 2023

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Shared 1 year ago

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19:17

An astrophysicist reacts to DOCTOR WHO | The Doctor was wrong about black holes...

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Shared 1 year ago

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10:37

Can SpaceX save the Hubble Space Telescope from falling to Earth?

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Shared 1 year ago

196K views

17:14

JWST observed an asteroid with RINGS occulting a background star | Your FAQ about Chariklo

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Shared 1 year ago

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How to spot Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), plus JWST finds weird distant galaxies | Night Sky News Jan '23

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Shared 1 year ago

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