Cover of Empire of the Stars

Empire of the Stars

by Arthur I. Miller

2005 416 pages eng

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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