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Chandrasekhar

Chandrasekhar is a term with multiple distinct meanings across science and culture.

Meanings

Chandrasekhar (physicist) — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize–winning astrophysicist who discovered the mass limit for stellar collapse

Chandrasekhar limit — The maximum mass a white dwarf can have before collapsing into a neutron star or black hole

Chandrasekhar number — A dimensionless quantity in convection physics, measuring the balance between magnetic and gravitational forces

Related

Stellar evolution, Supernovae, Astrophysics, Mass, Gravity

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