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March 2, 2021
Anna Payne
Unraveling an explosive mystery 570 million light-years away from Earth is an accomplishment belonging to the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy graduate student
Anna Payne. Her discovery of a blackhole at the center of an alluring active galaxy has earned her American Astronomical Society’s (
AAS) Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award.
A giant star being slowly devoured as it orbits the galaxy’s central black hole. (Image credit:
NASA)
Payne’s detection appears to reclassify what astronomers originally thought were supernova that fueled periodic flares every 114 days at the core of what’s been dubbed the “Old Faithful” galaxy.