Google honors the man who discovered the fate of dead stars

Chandra built on the ideas of his hero, Arthur Eddington, who famously said that if a star continued to collapse, “the force of gravitation would be so great that light would be unable to escape from it, the rays falling back to the star like a stone to the Earth.” However, Eddington doubted that such …

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