chandrasekhar
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prop. n.Proper NounAn Indian surname and given name, notably associated with the Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a famous astrophysicist.
n.NounThe maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star, approximately 1.44 solar masses.
The Chandrasekhar limit defines the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star.
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- And what it does is it sucks gas off its companion star until it gets to this limit called the Chandrasekhar limit,
And what it does is it sucks gas off its companion star until it gets to this limit called the Chandrasekhar limit,
- until it gets to this limit called the Chandrasekhar limit,
until it gets to this limit called the Chandrasekhar limit,