![]() ![]() ![]() Recipient of many awards and honors for her work including the Guggenheim, Caroline Herschel and Radcliffe fellowships, she also holds the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Professorship at the Dark Cosmology Center at the University of Copenhagen, and an honorary professorship for life at the University of Delhi.Īside from research, she is also deeply invested in the public dissemination of science. She has proposed and worked on models for the formation of massive black hole seeds, direct collapse black holes and their observational signatures. Another abiding interest has been the study of the growth history of black holes over cosmic time and, in particular, the formation of the first seed black holes. She uses gravitational lensing observations, the deflection of light rays by matter in the universe, to map the detailed distribution of dark matter. ‘Moustache’ is a unique title and instantly conjures up the image of male masculinity. ![]() ![]() Hareesh in Malayalam and translated into English by Jayashree Kalathil. She is recognized for her seminal contributions to the study of dark matter and the formation and growth of black holes. Moustache has well-developed Dalit characters in addition to the protagonist and narrates their struggles from their points of view, not through an upper-caste lens. Undoubtedly, ‘Moustache’ was the most awaited read for me, especially after it won the JCB Prize for Literature 2020. Priyamvada Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale. ![]()
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