Black holes: How Chandrasekhar saw the end of light

Black holes: How Chandrasekhar saw the end of light

In 1930, a young Indian physicist named Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar boarded a ship from India to England. Just 19 years old, he spent much of the long voyage working out the mathematics of what happens when a star collapses under its own gravity.  What he found was shocking: stars above a certain mass couldn’t stop their […]

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