ATLANTA (AP) — An assistant professor at Georgia State University has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation.

School spokesman Jeremy Craig says Misty Bentz received a five-year grant of more than $862,000. Craig says Bentz will use the grant to measure the distance to galaxies where astronomers have pinpointed masses of black holes. Black holes form when stars reach the end of their life, explode and collapse inward from the center.

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