Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

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Banibrata Mukhopadhyay is an Indian Scientist/Astrophysicist and a professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, born at Kolkata, India to Pulak Mukhopadhyay, a biologist, and Tapati Mukhopadhyay, an academic. 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^{[verification needed]}, which could explain the origin of over-luminous type Ia supernovae.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} 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^{[verification needed]}. This idea is to be confirmed by laboratory experiments. His another work is able to predict the spin of black holes.^{[verification needed]}.^{[7][8][9][10]}