Empire of the Stars
Black holes (Astronomy)
Discoveries in science
Relativity (Physics)
Astrophysics
Quantum theory
Biography
History
In August 1930, on a voyage from Madras to London, a young Indian looked up at the stars and contemplated their fate. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar--Chandra, as he was called--calculated that certain stars would suffer a strange and violent death, collapsing to virtually nothing. This extraordinary cla…
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