Dr Becky Smethurst: Astrophysicist, Blackhole Obsessive and Science Communicator The Astro Ben Podcast

Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysics researcher who is trying to understand the connection between galaxies and their central supermassive black holes in the local Universe. In particular Dr Becky focus’s on the non-merger driven growth of supermassive black holes and the resultant feedback effects on their host galaxies!
In this episode, Ben and Dr Becky discuss the misconceptions about black holes, spaghettification and will humanity ever traverse a black hole?!
OUTLINE:
Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.
00:00 Intro to Dr Becky Smethurst
01:12 Post Conference vibes 
02:08 Dr Becky’s passion for space
05:01 Ability to communicate the science
06:40 Science communication
09:07 A brief history of black holes (out now on paperback https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brief-History-Black-Holes-everything/dp/1529086744/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)
11:37 Spaghettification 
15:15 Being “Beyond the event horizon”
18:01 The ultimate mystery!
19:02 The James Webb Space Telescope - recent revelations
22:55 Does/could AI effect Dr Becky’s research?
26:22 Could humanity survive a black hole?
28:30 Dr Becky’s hobbies
29:24 Wrap Up and Socials
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Website: https://rebeccasmethurst.co.uk
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