Nur Adlyka Ainul Annuar, 27, was among a team of world astronomers who succeeded in proving the existence of the ‘supermassive’ black hole in a galaxy located 38 million light years away from earth.

The second of four siblings from Muar is an Astrophysics PhD student at the Extra galactic Astronomy Centre, Physics Department of Durham University, United Kingdom (UK). She became interested in astronomy and astrophysics at 13, after watching ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Apollo 13’.

She had presented her team’s discovery in a working paper entitled, ‘Black Holes, Green Galaxies, Old Stars and NuSTAR’ during the 229th Meeting of American Astronomical Society early this year.

Since 2014, Nur Adlyka has also been a scientist working on the new X-ray telescope at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), dubbed NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array).