• Question: hi, i have a question, what would happen if our sun turned into a black hole?

    Asked by anon-191466 to Graeme on 13 Nov 2018.
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      Graeme Poole answered on 13 Nov 2018:


      Our Sun can’t turn into a black hole because it is no heavy enough. Black holes form when truly massive stars, about 100 times the size of the Sun, die and collapse.

      However, if there was a black hole where the Sun is, then the Earth would orbit it and slowly move towards it. Eventually it would get sucked it and crushed to an infinitely small size. We certainly wouldn’t be alive long!!

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