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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.

Get your copy here

Galaxy Zoo: quantitative visual morphological classifications for 48 000 galaxies from CANDELS

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 464:4 (2017) 4420-4447

Authors:

BD Simmons, C Lintott, KW Willett, KL Masters, JS Kartaltepe, B Haussler, S Kaviraj, C Krawczyk, SJ Kruk, DH McIntosh, RJ Smethurst, RC Nichol, C Scarlata, K Schawinski, CJ Conselice, O Almaini, HC Ferguson, L Fortson, W Hartley, D Kocevski, AM Koekemoer, A Mortlock, JA Newman, SP Bamford, NA Grogin, RA Lucas, NP Hathi, E McGrath, M Peth, J Pforr, Z Rizer, S Wuyts, G Barro, EF Bell, M Castellano, T Dahlen, A Dekel, J Ownsworth, SM Faber, SL Finkelstein, A Fontana, A Galametz, R Grutzbauch, D Koo, J Lotz, B Mobasher, M Mozena, M Salvato, T Wiklind
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Galaxy Zoo: evidence for rapid, recent quenching within a population of AGN host galaxies

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 463:3 (2016) 2986-2996

Authors:

RJ Smethurst, CJ Lintott, BD Simmons, K Schawinski, SP Bamford, CN Cardamone, SJ Kruk, KL Masters, CM Urry, KW Willett, OI Wong
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Galaxy Zoo: comparing the demographics of spiral arm number and a new method for correcting redshift bias

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 461:4 (2016) 3663-3682

Authors:

RE Hart, SP Bamford, KW Willett, KL Masters, C Cardamone, CJ Lintott, RJ Mackay, RC Nichol, CK Rosslowe, BD Simmons, RJ Smethurst
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Galaxy Zoo: evidence for diverse star formation histories through the green valley

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 450:1 (2015) 435-453

Authors:

RJ Smethurst, CJ Lintott, BD Simmons, K Schawinski, PJ Marshall, S Bamford, L Fortson, S Kaviraj, KL Masters, T Melvin, RC Nichol, RA Skibba, KW Willett
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Galaxy Zoo: Are bars responsible for the feeding of active galactic nuclei at 0.2 < z < 1.0?★

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 447:1 (2015) 506-516

Authors:

Edmond Cheung, Jonathan R Trump, E Athanassoula, Steven P Bamford, Eric F Bell, A Bosma, Carolin N Cardamone, Kevin RV Casteels, SM Faber, Jerome J Fang, Lucy F Fortson, Dale D Kocevski, David C Koo, Seppo Laine, Chris Lintott, Karen L Masters, Thomas Melvin, Robert C Nichol, Kevin Schawinski, Brooke Simmons, Rebecca Smethurst, Kyle W Willett
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