Should You Be Scared Of A Black Hole? | Dr. Becky Smethurst
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 147 minutes
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00:00 Intro
01:25 Interest In Astrophysics
25:00 Pluto
31:10 Looking For Aliens
43:54 Moon Landing / Mars
51:30 3i Atlas
57:54 Black Holes
1:22:12 My Existential Crisis
1:34:59 UK Healthcare / Breast Cancer
2:05:00 Genetic Modification / Flat Earthers
2:08:58 The Future / Owning Space / Starlink
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| 0:00.0 | At the start of May last year, I found it was a slight dimple on my left breast, basically. |
| 0:06.5 | Hearing those words, your entire world just comes crashing down, you know, |
| 0:10.6 | it's one of those things where you think, what did I do? |
| 0:13.0 | There are people who are like, skip the treatment that your doctor's giving you |
| 0:17.2 | and just live healthy, live naturally. |
| 0:20.4 | What do you want to say to those people? |
| 0:21.9 | I want to say that you're gambling, but the gamble might not pay off. And the thing is, you only hear |
| 0:27.6 | from the people that the gamble pays off for. Welcome back to the checkup podcast. Today's guest is |
| 0:32.4 | Dr. Becky Smithhurst, an astrophysicist from Oxford University in the UK, who specializes in everyone's |
| 0:40.2 | favorite astronomy topic, black holes. Believe me, we go into all of that, plus the inevitable |
| 0:46.0 | death of the sun, who owns the moon, debating flat earthers, and of course aliens. We also |
| 0:52.5 | discussed Dr. Becky's startling breast cancer diagnosis |
| 0:56.2 | as an otherwise healthy and fit woman in her 30s and her experience navigating the UK's National |
| 1:02.5 | Health Service. But she's not just an outer space expert, Dr. Becky is also an expert on YouTube, |
| 1:07.9 | where she educates her audience of nearly one million subscribers about the |
| 1:12.1 | wonders of the cosmos. As a working scientist and YouTuber, it turns out Dr. Becky and I |
| 1:17.5 | actually have a lot in common. Please help me in welcoming Dr. Becky Smithhurst to the Checkup |
| 1:22.1 | podcast. Huge thanks to Garden Health for sponsoring this video. We function in the same space, |
| 1:27.2 | but we don't function in the same space. We function in the same space, but we don't |
| 1:28.1 | function in the same space. And I use the term space purposefully. I get really excited |
| 1:35.6 | talking about health science. You get excited talking about science, but on a different side of |
| 1:41.1 | things. What side is that? My side is astrophysics. Okay. So black holes specifically, because I'm obsessed with black holes, but mostly it's, you know, the planets, stars, galaxies, alien life. |
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