Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated, as a young man on the ship from India to England in 1930, the maximum mass a white dwarf star can have before its own gravity overwhelms the pressure holding it up, about 1.44 times the mass of the Sun. Beyond that limit a collapsing star cannot settle into a white dwarf and instead becomes a neutron star or black hole. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for this and later work on stellar structure. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (19 October 1910-21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist.
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