Professor Brian Cox broke the Guinness World Record for the most tickets sold for a science tour after 230,873 people watched the 2019 Universal Show.

This is the second time the physicist has broken his own record, with his 2017 live tour selling 158,589 tickets, itself beating his own previous record.

“I am very proud,” said Cox, 54, who is currently on the 2022 world tour Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey.

After hearing he broke the record again, Cox said:

“On behalf of the entire team involved in my tour, I am very proud to break this record.”

Cox is halfway through the tour, touring arenas in the UK before dates in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

He completed a leg of his US tour earlier this year before enjoying a series of special shows at London’s Royal Opera House in August.

Cox is a professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester and a broadcaster. For the BBC, he has presented a number of acclaimed science shows such as Wonders Of The Solar System, Forces Of Nature, Stargazing Live and most recently Brian Cox’s Adventures In Space. and Time and Brian Cox: His Seven Days on Mars.

He has also written a series of best-selling books with his latest book, Black Holes: The Key To Understanding The Universe, co-authored with Professor Jeffrey Forshaw, due out in October.

Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday said:

“The world around us seems increasingly complex and confusing, so it’s comforting to know that Brian will place us in our place.

“We live in a truly wonderfully complex and beautiful universe, and I can’t think of anyone else to guide us.”

Horizons takes audiences on a cinematic journey, following the story of how we came to be and what we will become.

Using state-of-the-art LED screen technology, audiences are shown images of distant galaxies, alien worlds, supermassive black holes, and pre-Big Bang eras.

Cox is also committed to exploring the deepest problems using the latest advances in our understanding of quantum theory, black holes, biology, planetary science, astronomy, and cosmology.

He added:

“I said early on in the show that cosmology raises philosophical and emotional questions about the worth of our civilization. I think we were compelled by the origins of, and the study of new and spectacular phenomena.Images from telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope offer escapism, wonder, and a little food for thought.”