chandrasekhar limit

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noun chandrasekhar limit the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf, equal to 1.44 solar masses. A star having a mass above this limit will continue to collapse to form a neutron star 3
noun chandrasekhar limit the mass limit above which a star has too much mass to become a white dwarf after gravitational collapse, approximately 1.44 solar masses. 1

before 1975

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1975-80; after U.S. astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (born 1910), who formulated it

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