Dr Becky Smethurst

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46.7K

Posts

8.9K

Following

1.4K

Account age

17 yrs

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My favourite fact about the BIG gravitational wave news, is that it was only made possible because we finally know the precise position of Jupiter! 🤯

Thanks to @chrislintott for flagging this cool fact

#pulsartimingarray #nanograv #GravitationalWaves @NASAJuno

356.5K views My favourite fact about the BIG gravitational wave news, is that it was only made possible because we finally know the precise position of Jupiter! 🤯 Thanks to @chrislintott for flagging this cool fact #pulsartimingarray #nanograv #GravitationalWaves @NASAJuno

BIG NEWS IN PHYSICS! The first ever evidence for light year long gravitational waves that *might* be due to merging supermassive black holes. All possible thanks to pulsar timing arrays, explained in this video 👇

#GravitationalWaves #NANOGrav #pulsars

116.8K views BIG NEWS IN PHYSICS! The first ever evidence for light year long gravitational waves that *might* be due to merging supermassive black holes. All possible thanks to pulsar timing arrays, explained in this video 👇 #GravitationalWaves #NANOGrav #pulsars

📊 Post performance

116.8K

Avg views / post

2.5×

Reach vs followers

Mar 2009

On X since

🔥 Top post: My favourite fact about the BIG gravitational wave news, is that · 356.5K views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.09 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly video

Recent: 6 video · 6 image · 6 text.

Follower / following

33×

Follows 1.4K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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▶ 🔥 Top post My favourite fact about the BIG gravitational wave news, is that it was only made possible because we finally know the precise position of Jupiter! 🤯 Thanks to @chrislintott for flagging this cool fact #pulsartimingarray #nanograv #GravitationalWaves @NASAJuno 356.5K❤ 3.1K🔁 692

Huge congratulations to @ISRO for their successful soft landing on the South Pole of the Moon with Chandrayaan-3 🥳 roll on all the new science results! 52.5K❤ 1.2K🔁 118

▶ BIG NEWS IN PHYSICS! The first ever evidence for light year long gravitational waves that *might* be due to merging supermassive black holes. All possible thanks to pulsar timing arrays, explained in this video 👇 #GravitationalWaves #NANO… 116.8K❤ 1.9K🔁 457

It’s publication day 🥳 my new book “A Brief History of Black Holes” is now out in the world! It covers many common misconceptions around black holes by using the history of our understanding. Here’s a sneak peek! Grab a copy (hardback, … ❤ 1K🔁 276

▶ There's a pseudo-science article that's gone viral recently claiming that JWST images are showing the Big Bang "didn't happen". It’s all complete tosh. More on this in Thursday's Night Sky News video about what JWST data is actually show… ❤ 1.2K🔁 293

For everyone like me who's excited for JWST to observe the 7 planet system TRAPPIST-1 - it did so yesterday morning for over 5 hours 👀 From the published JWST observing schedule here: https://t.co/8eDFFGzO7f ❤ 1.3K🔁 203

I can't stop flipping back and forth between the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula. In the Hubble image the dust is just this wall that looks solid, and JWST has revealed the structure in that dust that has … ❤ 5.5K🔁 1.2K

🤯🤯🤯 It’s like the Hubble Ultra Deep Field turned up to 11! The sheer number of galaxies in this image is astounding (image size is same as a grain of sand at arms length!) - PLUS LENSES! No doubt the most distant galaxy ever found is in … ❤ 1.6K🔁 321 I’ve given up for the day trying to do science. I’m too angry. Too busy thinking about how women don’t have the right to their own body autonomy in a country that preaches freedom. ❤ 1.1K🔁 171

▶ An astrophysicist’s live reaction to the reveal of the image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way 😍🥳😱@ehtelescope #EventHorizonTelescope ❤ 2.4K🔁 424 I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded the 2022 RAS Research Fellowship! In my 3 year term I’ll be continuing my work studying the growth of supermassive black holes in the absence of mergers (and the resultant AGN fee… ❤ 1.2K🔁 131 CAN'T. STOP. WATCHING. Comparison of JWST resolution (70 mas, 0.00002°) compared to Spitzer (2as, 0.0005°) a space telescope that also viewed the universe in infrared light ❤ 2.8K🔁 516

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.

👁️Averages 116.8K views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

💬5.14% engagement rate.

🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🛡️ Audience credibility

74/100

Good Credibility score

90%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 90% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~2.5× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (17+ years old).
5.14% engagement — below the ~18% typical for this size.

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Astrophysicist researching how supermassive black holes affect galaxies (s/h). I get overly enthusiastic about space on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/drbecky