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| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
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| Wilhelm Anderson |
Chandrasekhar Limit was proposed by Wilhelm Anderson and E.C. Stoner who named it after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the renowed Indian-American Astrophysicist who made modifications on the calculations in 1930. Chandrasekhar Limit is actually the maximum mass of a stable white-dwarf star. The currently accepted value of the limit is about 1.44 solar masses or 2.864 x 1030 kg.
Stars exceeding the limit would eventually collapse under their own weight and become neutron stars or black holes.Stars below the limit would be prevented from collapsing by the degeneracy pressure exerted by the electrons.
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| Edmund Clifton Stoner |
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