Dr Becky Smethurst is an award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator at the University of Oxford, specialising in how galaxies co-evolve with their supermassive black holes. In 2022 she was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Research Fellowship for 2022. Her YouTube channel, 'Dr Becky', has over 400,000 subscribers who engage with her videos on weird objects in space, the history of science and monthly recaps of space news. A Brief History of Black Holes is her second book; her first, Space: 10 Things You Should Know was named one of Sky at Night magazine's books of the year, and translated all around the world.
A jaunt through space history . . . with charming wit and many pop-culture references * BBC Sky At Night Magazine * A lot of astrophysics is packed into this neat little book -- Jim Al-Khalili on <i>Space: 10 Things You Should Know</i> Bite-sized, cutting edge science delivered with enormous enthusiasm -- Chris Lintott on <i>Space: 10 Things You Should Know</i>