Stars lighter than eight solar masses end their life cycle as white dwarfs, supported by electron degeneracy pressure with a well-known upper mass limit, the Chandrasekhar limit, near 1.4 solar ...

Those two students, Lee Tsung-Dao and Yang Chen-Ning would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, making Chandrasekhar’s course the only one in history where all its attendees were ...

In the latter half of the 20th century, eminent theoretical scientists, including Steven Hawking at Cambridge, John Wheeler and Jacob Bekenstein at Princeton, Chandrasekhar and Robert Wald at the ...