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What is the Chandrasekhar limit? Discuss the fate of stars whose masses are beyond the Chandrasekhar limit.
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The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. The limit was first indicated in papers published by Wilhelm Anderson and E. C. Stoner in 1929. It was named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Indian astrophysicist who independently discovered and improved upon the accuracy of the calculation in 1930, at the age of 20, in India. The limit was initially ignored by the community of scientists because such a limit
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