Anne Cowley

Anne Cowley
Anne Cowley at the 138th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Michigan State University
Alma materWellesley College
University of Michigan
Known forSpectroscopic observations of stars and stellar black holes
SpouseCharles R. Cowley
AwardsAlumnae Achievement Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity 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, and the second known stellar black hole after Cygnus X-1. She is a professor emerita at Arizona State University.

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