Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 4: Vindication

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The collapsing stars Eddington swore couldn't exist turned out to be everywhere, and half a century later the world handed Chandrasekhar his Nobel.

How the 1.4 solar mass limit became one of the most important numbers in modern astronomy.