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TIL Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who discovered the Chandrasekhar limit—the maximum mass (about 1.4 solar masses) a white dwarf star can have before collapsing ... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who discovered the Chandrasekhar limit—the maximum mass (about 1.4 solar masses) a white dwarf star can have before collapsing into a neutron star or black hole. He won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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