印度人苏布拉马尼扬·钱德拉塞卡聪慧过人,19岁时便奇迹般地演算出一个惊人的结果:当恒星质量超过某一上限时,它的最终归宿将不会是白矮星。这与当时天体物理学界的观点针锋相对。那时的科学家坚持,恒星的白矮星阶段被认为是一切恒星演化过程的最终阶段。后来,钱德拉塞卡以优异的成绩获得奖学金,到英国剑桥大学求学。 The Indians, Subrahimane Chandrasekhar, are brilliant people, and at age 19 miraculously calculus an astounding result: when the star’s mass exceeds a certain limit, its ultimate destination will not be a white dwarf . This is diametrically opposed to the astrophysical community’s view of the time. The scientists at the time insisted that the stellar white dwarf stage was considered the final stage of any stellar evolution. Later, Chandrasekhar obtained a scholarship with excellent results and went to Cambridge, UK to study.