Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an astrophysicist who studied the life cycles of stars. He is famous for discovering the maximum mass a white dwarf star can have before collapsing under its own gravity, known as the Chandrasekhar limit—about 1.4 times the mass of our Sun. Beyond this point, the star can't support itself and may turn into a neutron star or black hole. His work deepened our understanding of stellar evolution and won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. Chandrasekhar's insights helped explain how some of the most extreme objects in the universe form and behave.