Chandrasekhar Limit
A limit which mandates that no white dwarf (a collapsed, degenerate star) can be more massive than about 1.4 solar masses. Exclusion principle repulsion among the electrons in a star more massive than this can’t support the star against its own gravity.
Any degenerate object more massive must inevitably collapse into a neutron star.
See also: Neutron Star, White Dwarf.
Subjects: Physics