Rebecca Smethurst

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British astrophysicist

Rebecca Smethurst
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Rebecca Smethurst (born 15 May 1990) is a British astrophysicist and YouTuber from Lancashire. She earned a Master of Physics at Durham University and a doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2017, supervised by Chris Lintott. She worked at the University of Nottingham until 2018 and has been employed by Christ Church since October 2018, and her work includes research on black holes. Her YouTube channel, Dr. Becky, features videos explaining the universe and had about 783,000 subscribers in February 2025.

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