Pakistan, May 4 -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician born in Lahore, British India (now Pakistan) in 1910. Despite his extraordinary contributions to our understanding of stellar evolution and black holes, his legacy remains largely unrecognized in his birthplace.

Chandrasekhar's most celebrated work was his discovery of the "Chandrasekhar Limit" in 1930 when he was just 20 years old. This fundamental concept describes the maximum mass a white dwarf star can attain before collapsing under its gravitational force, paving the way for our modern understanding of how stars evolve and black holes form.

Yet, in the city of Lahore, where Chandrasekhar was born and raised, there is little to no public ...