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Indian Contributions to Black Hole and Neutron Star Research
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Which Indian astronomer and mathematician is credited with proposing the idea of a neutron star in the 1930s?
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American astrophysicist, proposed the existence of neutron stars in his 1931 paper, 'The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs'.