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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.

Credit: ALAIN RIAZUELO, IAP/UPMC/CNRS. CLICK HERE TO VIEW MORE IMAGES.

Dr Becky Smethurst

Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellow

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
rebecca.smethurst@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Public science book

An image of the front cover of "A Brief History of Black Holes" by Dr Becky Smethurst

Told with humour and wisdom, this captivating book describes the secrets behind the most profound questions about our universe – all hidden inside black holes.

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SDSS-IV MaNGA: evidence of the importance of AGN feedback in low-mass galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 476:1 (2018) 979-998

Authors:

Samantha J Penny, Karen L Masters, Rebecca Smethurst, Robert C Nichol, Coleman M Krawczyk, Dmitry Bizyaev, Olivia Greene, Charles Liu, Mariarosa Marinelli, Sandro B Rembold, Rogemar A Riffel, Gabriele da Silva Ilha, Dominika Wylezalek, Brett H Andrews, Kevin Bundy, Niv Drory, Daniel Oravetz, Kaike Pan
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Galaxy Zoo: secular evolution of barred galaxies from structural decomposition of multiband images

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 473:4 (2018) 4731-4753

Authors:

SJ Kruk, CJ Lintott, SP Bamford, KL Masters, BD Simmons, B Haussler, CN Cardamone, RE Hart, L Kelvin, K Schawinski, RJ Smethurst, M Vika
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SDSS-IV MaNGA: the different quenching histories of fast and slow rotatorsSDSS-IV MaNGA: the different quenching histories of fast and slow rotators

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 473:2 (2018) 2679-2687

Authors:

RJ Smethurst, KL Masters, CJ Lintott, A Weijmans, M Merrifield, SJ Penny, A Aragon-Salamanca, J Brownstein, K Bundy, N Drory, DR Law, RC Nichol
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SDSS-IV MaNGA-resolved Star Formation and Molecular Gas Properties of Green Valley Galaxies: A First Look with ALMA and MaNGA

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 851:1 (2017) 18

Authors:

Lihwai Lin, Francesco Belfiore, Hsi-An Pan, MS Bothwell, Pei-Ying Hsieh, Shan Huang, Ting Xiao, Sebastián F Sánchez, Bau-Ching Hsieh, Karen Masters, S Ramya, Jing-Hua Lin, Chin-Hao Hsu, Cheng Li, Roberto Maiolino, Kevin Bundy, Dmitry Bizyaev, Niv Drory, Héctor Ibarra-Medel, Ivan Lacerna, Tim Haines, Rebecca Smethurst, David V Stark, Daniel Thomas
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Galaxy Zoo and sparcfire: constraints on spiral arm formation mechanisms from spiral arm number and pitch angles

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 472:2 (2017) 2263-2279

Authors:

RE Hart, SP Bamford, WB Hayes, CN Cardamone, WC Keel, SJ Kruk, CJ Lintott, KL Masters, BD Simmons, RJ Smethurst
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