Wed Jun 11, 2003 6:59 pm
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Sirius B has another claim to fame. This white dwarf star fueled a debate in the 1920s between leading astrophysicists Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Sir Authur Eddington. At issue was the following question: How far can a star possibly collapse? And for a given mass, what will it collapse into?
Chandrasekhar derived a relation ship between the star's mass and its radius which sets an upper limit to the mass a white dwarf can have, beyond which it will collapse to a neutron star or, if sufficiently massive, to a black hole. Calculations put the "Chandrasekhar Limit" at 1.4 solar masses. Decades later Chandrasekhar's fundamental contributions were recognized when he won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Sirius B has another claim to fame. This white dwarf star fueled a debate in the 1920s between leading astrophysicists Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Sir Authur Eddington. At issue was the following question: How far can a star possibly collapse? And for a given mass, what will it collapse into?
Chandrasekhar derived a relation ship between the star's mass and its radius which sets an upper limit to the mass a white dwarf can have, beyond which it will collapse to a neutron star or, if sufficiently massive, to a black hole. Calculations put the "Chandrasekhar Limit" at 1.4 solar masses. Decades later Chandrasekhar's fundamental contributions were recognized when he won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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