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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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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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Evidence for non-merger co-evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes

(2022)

Authors:

Rj Smethurst, Rs Beckmann, Bd Simmons, A Coil, J Devriendt, Y Dubois, Il Garland, Cj Lintott, G Martin, S Peirani
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Supermassive black holes in merger-free galaxies have higher spins which are preferentially aligned with their host galaxy

(2022)

Authors:

RS Beckmann, RJ Smethurst, BD Simmons, A Coil, Y Dubois, IL Garland, CJ Lintott, G Martin, S Peirani, C Pichon
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Gems of the Galaxy Zoos-A Wide-ranging Hubble Space Telescope Gap-filler Program*

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 163:4 (2022) ARTN 150

Authors:

William C Keel, Jean Tate, O Ivy Wong, Julie K Banfield, Chris J Lintott, Karen L Masters, Brooke D Simmons, Claudia Scarlata, Carolin Cardamone, Rebecca Smethurst, Lucy Fortson, Jesse Shanahan, Sandor Kruk, Izzy L Garland, Colin Hancock, David O'Ryan
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Gems of the Galaxy Zoos -- a Wide-Ranging Hubble Space Telescope Gap-Filler Program

(2022)

Authors:

William C Keel, Jean Tate, O Ivy Wong, Julie K Banfield, Chris J Lintott, Karen L Masters, Brooke D Simmons, Claudia Scarlata, Carolin Cardamone, Rebecca Smethurst, Lucy Fortson, Jesse Shanahan, Sandor Kruk, Izzy L Garland, Colin Hancock, David O'Ryan
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Quantifying the poor purity and completeness of morphological samples selected by galaxy colour

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 510:3 (2021) 4126-4133

Authors:

Rebecca J Smethurst, Karen L Masters, Brooke D Simmons, Izzy L Garland, Tobias Geron, Boris Haeussler, Sandor Kruk, Chris J Lintott, David O'Ryan, Mike Walmsley
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