Many people spend their entire lives dedicated to one topic of research, but Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar didn't limit himself to just one. Born in India in 1910, Chandrasekhar's parents homeschooled ...

Ever wondered how the stars you see in the sky might eventually die? Ever thought about how black holes are formed? The subject of Thursday’s Google Doodle is celebrated specifically for his answers ...

What happens to different-sized stars when they run out of energy? We have a better idea of the answer to that question thanks to late astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who would have turned ...

Before the stars—before even the 92 separate elements were formed, what was the universe like? > The material of the universe was a single clump of tight-packed sub-atomic particles—so tightly packed, ...

There's a constant battle between gravity and nuclear physics going on inside a star that's only resolved when it dies. American, Indian-born scientist Subrahmanyan "Chandra" Chandrasekhar figured out ...

Similar to a living organism, a star has its own life cycle: it’s born out of clumps of gas and dust, it evolves and changes over millions or billions of years, and then it dies, leaving behind a ...

If it wasn't for the work of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the cosmos would still be a mystery. Sorry, Neil deGrasse Tyson fans, before that guy became pop culture's ...

Who proposed the existence of black holes? I suspect the majority of people would guess Albert Einstein, and the rest would probably plump for Stephen Hawking. In fact, the credit goes to Subrahmanyan ...

From creating the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction to redefining Chicago’s administrative borders, students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Chicago have greatly contributed the story ...