Anne Cowley
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KnownforSpectroscopic observations of stars and stellar black holes
SpouseCharles R. Cowley
AwardsAlumnae Achievement Award
Anne Cowley | |
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 Anne Cowley at the 138th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Michigan State University | |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College University of Michigan |
| Known for | Spectroscopic observations of stars and stellar black holes |
| Spouse | Charles R. Cowley |
| Awards | Alumnae Achievement Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of Michigan Arizona State University |
Anne Pyne Cowley is an American astronomer known for her spectroscopic observations of stars and stellar black holes, including the 1983 discovery of a likely black hole in LMC X-3, an X-ray binary star system in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This became the first known extragalactic stellar black hole,[1][2] and the second known stellar black hole after Cygnus X-1.[2] She is a professor emerita at Arizona State University.[3]
