Which Indian astronomer's work on stellar structure and evolution led to the Chandrasekhar limit, crucial for understanding white dwarfs?

Quiz Options

• Aryabhata
• Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Jagadish Chandra Bose

Explanation

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate, formulated the Chandrasekhar limit, which is the maximum mass an object can have and still support itself against gravitational collapse through electron degeneracy pressure.