The Chandrasekhar limit is the greatest mass of a stable white small star (approx 3 × 1030 kg, about 1.4 times the mass of the Sun). The limit was initially published by Wilhelm Anderson and E. C. Stoner, and was named after the Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
The Chandrasekhar limit is the greatest mass of a stable white small star (approx 3 × 1030 kg, about 1.4 times the mass of the Sun). The limit was initially published by Wilhelm Anderson and E. C. Stoner, and was named after the Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.