Robert McNees on Nostr: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born #OTD in 1910. He established an upper limit on ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born #OTD in 1910. He established an upper limit on the mass of stable white dwarf stars, and made numerous contributions to astrophysics and relativity.
Above the Chandrasekhar Limit – about 1.44 solar masses – electron degeneracy pressure cannot prevent a stellar remnant’s gravitational collapse into a neutron star or black hole.
Photo: Stephen Lewellyn / AIP
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