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Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 1: Triumph

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July 20, 2026 • 129 views
Original source: Universe Today

The story of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who as a teenager on an ocean voyage worked out that white dwarf stars have a maximum mass of 1.4 Suns. A tour of degeneracy pressure, the relativistic insight everyone else missed, and the number that would define his life.

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