| 单词 | Chandrasekhar limit |
| 释义 | Chandrasekhar limit The maximum possible mass of a star that is prevented from collapsing under its own gravity by the degeneracy pressure of either electrons (a white dwarf) or neutrons (a neutron star). For white dwarfs the Chandrasekhar mass is about 1.4 times the mass of the sun. For neutron stars its value is less precisely known because of uncertainties regarding the equation of state of neutron matter, but it is generally taken to be in the range of 1.5 to 3 (and almost certainly no more than 5) times the mass of the sun. It is named after the Indian-born US astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–95) |
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