By combining special relativity with quantum mechanics, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar showed that if the mass of a star were greater than a critical value, then that star could not evolve into a white dwarf. It would instead collapse into a neutron star...

The Chandrasekhar limit (named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar) is the maximum nonrotating mass which can be supported against gravitational collapse by electron degeneracy pressure. It is commonly given as being about 1.4[1][2] solar masses. Computed...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an astrophysicist who developed the Chandrasekhar theory, which describes the mass that was once a star once the star collapses, that was rejected by his peers. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1983, long after he wrote the theory,...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a towering figure in 20th-century science, an outstanding astrophysicist who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for physics for his work on white dwarf stars and black holes. "Chandra" came from the intellectual elite of India. His father had risen high...