Few novels generate enough power to transform their characters, fewer still their readers. Madhuri Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country. 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. The Far Field is remarkable, a novel at once politically timely and morally timeless. 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. She is recognized for her seminal contributions to the study of dark matter and the formation and growth of black holes. Vijay is the author of the novel The Far Field, which won the J.C.B. Priyamvada Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale. Madhuri Vijay reads her story from the August 17, 2020, issue of the magazine.
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