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The 2 scientists who discovered something very interesting …

(Welcome to the second post of “Illustrations on black holes” ,which is a series of illustrations which is based upon & Inspired Stephen Hawking’s BBC Reith Lectures on Black Holes).

Enter Chandrasekhar limit : The limit of mass till which a star could either form a white dwarf , which is one of the most dense objects of this universe & the limit is 1.4 times the mass of sun.

• Subhramanyan Chandrasekhar , an Indian-American scientist had discovered the Chandrasekhar limit.
• Lev Landau , a Soviet scientist also discovered something similar about Neutron stars.

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