Dr Becky Smethurst

Smethurst is an astrophysicist at Oxford who studies supermassive black holes and how galaxies grow around them, and she runs a YouTube channel explaining that research to a very large audience without watering it down. A Brief History of Black Holes covers what one actually is, how long the idea was resisted, and how the first image of a black hole was assembled in 2019. Her public argument is that bad metaphors damage the understanding of physics more than difficulty does.