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dec 24, 1935 - Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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establishes the “Chandrasekhar limit” of about 1.4 solar masses, above which a star must continue to collapse into a neutron star rather than settling down into a white dwarf.

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dec 24, 1935
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~ 90 years ago

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