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What was Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's most famous contribution to Theory of stellar evolution?
The Chandrasekhar limit
The theory of relativity
Quantum mechanics
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The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. If the mass of a white dwarf exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit, it will collapse into a neutron star or black hole. Chandrasekhar's work on the Chandrasekhar limit was a major contribution to Theory of stellar evolution and helped to explain the formation of neutron stars and black holes.
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