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• Chandrasekhar limit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron-degenerate matter, a dense form of matter which consists of nuclei immersed in a gas of electrons.

• The Chandrasekhar Limit

  The Chandrasekhar Limit. There's one interesting property of white dwarfs that I haven't mentioned. If a white dwarf exceeds a certain mass, about 1.4 , it is no longer able to ...

• Chandrasekhar Limit -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

  Around 1930, S. Chandrasekhar studied astrophysical models of white dwarf stars and came to the conclusion that no white dwarf can be more massive than about 1.2 solar masses (M=1 ...