A University of Arizona astrophysicist who searches for distant, alien objects in the universe is a new Guggenheim Fellow.
Feryal Ozel is one of 175 scholars selected for achievement and exceptional promise. Three-thousand applied for the awards, and Ozel is the only honoree in astronomy and astrophysics.
She will spend her fellowship year doing studies of compact objects, including the surfaces of neutron stars and black holes.
Professor Ozel is working on an instrument for the International Space Station that will measure emissions from neutron stars. She also is part of a team developing a network of radio telescopes that will observe a massive black hole thought to be at the center of the Milky Way.