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Black Hole

Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS MRIA

Professor of Astrophysics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
  • Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics
  • Rubin-LSST
stephen.smartt@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865273405
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 714
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  • Publications

Discovery and Extensive Follow-up of SN 2024ggi, a Nearby Type IIP Supernova in NGC 3621

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 983:1 (2025) 86

Authors:

Ting-Wan Chen, Sheng Yang, Shubham Srivastav, Takashi J Moriya, Stephen J Smartt, Sofia Rest, Armin Rest, Hsing Wen Lin, Hao-Yu Miao, Yu-Chi Cheng, Amar Aryan, Chia-Yu Cheng, Morgan Fraser, Li-Ching Huang, Meng-Han Lee, Cheng-Han Lai, Yu-Hsuan Liu, Aiswarya Sankar.K, Ken W Smith, Heloise F Stevance, Ze-Ning Wang, Joseph P Anderson, Charlotte R Angus, Thomas de Boer, Kenneth Chambers, Hao-Yuan Duan, Nicolas Erasmus, Michael Fulton, Hua Gao, Joanna Herman, Wei-Jie Hou, Hsiang-Yao Hsiao, Mark E Huber, Chien-Cheng Lin, Hung-Chin Lin, Eugene A Magnier, Ka Kit Man, Thomas Moore, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Matt Nicholl, Po-Sheng Ou, Giuliano Pignata, Yu-Chien Shiau, Julian Silvester Sommer, John L Tonry, Xiao-Feng Wang, Richard Wainscoat, David R Young, You-Ting Yeh, Jujia Zhang
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The Radio Counterpart to the Fast X-Ray Transient EP240414a

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 981:1 (2025) 48

Authors:

Joe S Bright, Francesco Carotenuto, Rob Fender, Carmen Choza, Andrew Mummery, Peter G Jonker, Stephen J Smartt, David R DeBoer, Wael Farah, James Matthews, Alexander W Pollak, Lauren Rhodes, Andrew Siemion
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A study in scarlet

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 695 (2025) a43

Authors:

G Valerin, A Pastorello, E Mason, A Reguitti, S Benetti, Y-Z Cai, T-W Chen, D Eappachen, N Elias-Rosa, M Fraser, A Gangopadhyay, EY Hsiao, DA Howell, C Inserra, L Izzo, J Jencson, E Kankare, R Kotak, P Lundqvist, PA Mazzali, K Misra, G Pignata, SJ Prentice, DJ Sand, SJ Smartt, MD Stritzinger, L Tartaglia, S Valenti, JP Anderson, JE Andrews, RC Amaro, C Barbarino, S Brennan, F Bufano, E Callis, E Cappellaro, R Dastidar, M Della Valle, A Fiore, MD Fulton, L Galbany, M Gromadzki, T Heikkilä, D Hiramatsu, E Karamehmetoglu, H Kuncarayakti, G Leloudas, M Limongi, M Lundquist, C McCully, TE Müller-Bravo, M Nicholl, P Ochner, E Padilla Gonzalez, E Paraskeva, C Pellegrino, A Rau, DE Reichart, TM Reynolds, R Roy, I Salmaso, M Shahbandeh, M Singh, J Sollerman, M Turatto, L Tomasella, S Wyatt, DR Young
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A study in scarlet

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 695 (2025) a42

Authors:

G Valerin, A Pastorello, A Reguitti, S Benetti, Y-Z Cai, T-W Chen, D Eappachen, N Elias-Rosa, M Fraser, A Gangopadhyay, EY Hsiao, DA Howell, C Inserra, L Izzo, J Jencson, E Kankare, R Kotak, PA Mazzali, K Misra, G Pignata, SJ Prentice, DJ Sand, SJ Smartt, MD Stritzinger, L Tartaglia, S Valenti, JP Anderson, JE Andrews, RC Amaro, S Brennan, F Bufano, E Callis, E Cappellaro, R Dastidar, M Della Valle, A Fiore, MD Fulton, L Galbany, T Heikkilä, D Hiramatsu, E Karamehmetoglu, H Kuncarayakti, G Leloudas, M Lundquist, C McCully, TE Müller-Bravo, M Nicholl, P Ochner, E Padilla Gonzalez, E Paraskeva, C Pellegrino, A Rau, DE Reichart, TM Reynolds, R Roy, I Salmaso, M Singh, M Turatto, L Tomasella, S Wyatt, DR Young
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SN 2023zaw: The Low-energy Explosion of an Ultrastripped Star

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 980:2 (2025) l44

Authors:

T Moore, JH Gillanders, M Nicholl, ME Huber, SJ Smartt, S Srivastav, HF Stevance, T-W Chen, KC Chambers, JP Anderson, MD Fulton, SR Oates, C Angus, G Pignata, N Erasmus, H Gao, J Herman, C-C Lin, T Lowe, EA Magnier, P Minguez, C-C Ngeow, X Sheng, SA Sim, KW Smith, R Wainscoat, S Yang, DR Young, K-J Zeng
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