On January 11 1935, at a convention. I delivered my paper, showing a graph that made it clear that a star of above a certain mass would inevitably dwindle to nothing and beyond. But Eddington, used the full force of his famed oratorical skills to demolish the me.
When I was nineteen, I challenged that a white dwarf much heavier than the sun could not exist, but would undergo an eternal collapse into a tiny point of infinite density, until it slipped though a crevice in space and time, otherwise known as a black hole.
Between 1931 and 1935, I clearly laid out his evidence for the existence of the Chandrasekhar limit. I know it was controversial at the time, and famous scientists like Albert Einstein and Arthur Eddington even spoke out against it. #HatersGonnaHate
Since we're already on the topic; I also attempted to develop the mathematical theory of black holes. I described my work in The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes. Check your local Barnes and Noble to pick up a copy.
I am pretty sure any white dwarf with a mass less than 1.4 times that of the suns, will stay a white dwarf forever, while a star that exceeds this mass is destined to end its life in that most violent of explosions: a supernova. 🤯🤯🤯