[1][2] Turtle and Murdin were careful about the language of the paper they submitted to the journal Nature describing their discovery, titled Cygnus X-1 — a Spectroscopic Binary with a Heavy Companion?
[1] In 1978, she found her final employment at the University of New South Wales in the physics faculty; in November that year she married Tony Turtle.
[5] The Bok Prize, awarded annually to undergraduates for excellence in research, was introduced largely at Turtle's instigation, and is sponsored by Astronomical Society of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science.
In honour of her contribution to astronomy, the Louise Webster Prize has been awarded annually since 2009 by the Astronomical Society of Australia to reward outstanding postdoctoral research early in a scientist's career.
[1][6] In October 2024, the ABC Science Show[7] carried an interview by Robyn Williams with author Marcus Chown discussing Louise Webster's contribution to the discovery of black holes.