Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Banibrata Mukhopadhyay is an Indian Scientist/Astrophysicist and a professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, born at Kolkatta, India to Pulak Mukhopadhyay, a biologist, and Tapati Mukhopadhyay, an academician. Mukhopadhyay's mother tongue is Bengali.

Mukhopadhyay's work, first with his students and then with collaborators, has identified a mechanism to allow significantly super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs to exist without collapsing into neutron stars, which could explain the origin of over-luminous type Ia supernovae. The idea of super-chandrashekar White-Dwarfs and their new mass-limit was proposed by physicists in the later 20th century, however, Mukhopadhyay's work on these stars is yet to be confirmed by direct observation (unlike by indirect over-luminous type Ia supernovae). He has also proposed a solution to the century-old problem of the origin of linear instability and subsequent turbulence and matter transport in Rayleigh-stable pure hydrodynamical shear flows, which could explain turbulence in accretion disks. This idea is to be confirmed by laboratory experiments. His another work is able to predict the spin of black holes.. Provided by Wikipedia