United KingdomRebecca Smethurst is the #7,821 most-subscribed YouTube creator worldwide and #542 in United Kingdom, with 876K subscribers and 115.2M total views across 574 videos. Rebecca Smethurst is known as astrophysicist, scientist and YouTuber.
Biography
Rebecca Smethurst, also known as Dr. Becky, is a British astrophysicist, author, and YouTuber who is a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She was the recipient of the 2020 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as the 2020 Mary Somerville Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics. In 2022, she won the Royal Astronomical Society's Winton Award "for research by a post-doctoral fellow in Astronomy whose career has shown the most promising development".
Channel description
Real science, from a real scientist. I'm an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford making videos explaining the Universe. 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!
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.
I have also written a few books.:
"A Brief History of Black Holes" (available in hardback, paperback, e-book, and audio - self-narrated)
"Space: 10 Things You Should Know" (available in hardback, paperback, e-book, and audio - self-narrated)
"Space at the Speed of Light" is the US title of Space: 10 Things You Should Know
Latest videos Channel ↗
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One of the most iconic plots in astrophysics #shorts
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When does the Universe form its stars?
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What's the strength of gravity on Super Mario World... #shorts
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Why images of Earth-like exoplanets are so elusive #shorts
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Why do telescopes shoot LASERS into the sky?! #shorts
Frequently asked
- How many subscribers does Dr. Becky have?
- 876K subscribers — #7,821 worldwide, #542 in United Kingdom.
- What is Dr. Becky's real name?
- Dr. Becky's real name is Rebecca Smethurst, born May 15, 1990.
- When did Dr. Becky start on YouTube?
- The channel was created in Nov 2011.