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Which Indian scientist is known for his work on black holes and cosmology?
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C.V. Raman
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- C.V. Raman
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Jayant Narlikar
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American astrophysicist, won the Nobel Prize for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars, including the Chandrasekhar limit for black holes.
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