Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was the first to calculate that when a massive ... “They are literally made out of space and time,” said Prof. Holz. Because they are so extreme, they are the perfect place ...

Location: American space telescope in high Earth orbit Launched: 1999 Cost: $1.59 billion Namesake: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American theoretical physicist Specialties: X-ray ...

As a child in India, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was captivated by the night sky. He often climbed to the roof of his family home, gazing at the stars and wondering about their origin and nature.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who realized that these stars would have ... For example, they have helped us test Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which describes how mass, space and time are ...