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...University of Chicago's noted Indian-born astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, when hospitalized for heart surgery, found to his delight that all his doctors and nurses seemed to want to talk about was black holes. The White House also recognizes the gravity of black holes. Upon reading a news article about them one morning, President Carter promptly asked his science adviser, Frank Press, for his thoughts. Press, whose son William happened to have done research on black holes, sheepishly confessed ignorance, explaining that he could not get through the paper so early...
...supernova's own gigantic size is its undoing. Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that a star whose mass is greater than 1.44 times the sun's mass cannot follow normal stellar evolution. Over a few million years, burning hydrogen on the outer layers of such a star produces more and more helium at its core. The doomed star's interior shrinks rapidly; and the density of its core increases. As temperatures rise in the contracting core, the collected helium is converted into successively heavier elements, such as iron and gold, which crowd the lighter elements outward...
...long will this go on? Ten thousand billion years more, says the University of Chicago's astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose book, Principles of Stellar Dynamics, has just been published (University of Chicago Press; $5). Beginning with a compact, enormously dense mass of some eight billion degrees Centigrade (TIME, June 1), the Milky Way galaxy has been expanding for three billion years, will continue to expand for at least 9,997 billion more. By then it should be completely relaxed, the stars will all have the same velocity, and will begin to slip away from the galaxy like molecules...
These are the conclusions of a small, soft-spoken Hindu astrophysicist, Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of the University of Chicago. Born in Lahore 32 years ago, he is a graduate of Madras and Cambridge Universities, a nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, who won a Nobel Prize (1930) for his studies on diffusion of light...
...Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ventures no answer to that...