Could the sun become a black hole?

Answer 1

A black hole is most often made made when a large enough star supernovas and then collapses in on itself. Our sun will probably not become a black hole when it dies, it's too small. A star (neutron-degenerate) that creates a black hole has to be at least 3x more massive than our sun. Most likely when our sun dies it will just create a white dwarf then a brown or black dwarf (mass but no light is given off.)

Answer 2

The Sun is about 4.5 billion years old. it has used up about half of its nuclear fuel (hydrogen). In about 5 billion years from now, the sun will begin to die.

As the Sun grows old, it will expand. As the core runs out of hydrogen and then helium, the core will contact and the outer layers will expand, cool, and become less bright. It will become a red giant star.

After this phase, the outer layers of the Sun will continue to expand. As this happens, the core will contract; the helium atoms in the core will fuse together, forming carbon atoms and releasing energy. The core will then be stable since the carbon atoms are not further compressible.

Then the outer layers of the Sun drift off into space, forming a planetary nebula (a planetary nebula has nothing to do with planets), exposing the core.

Most of its mass will go to the nebula. The remaining Sun will cool and shrink; it will eventually be only a few thousand miles in diameter!

The star is now a white dwarf, a stable star with no nuclear fuel. It radiates its left-over heat for billions of years. When its heat is all dispersed, it will be a cold, dark black dwarf - essentially a dead star (perhaps replete with diamonds, highly compressed carbon).

So no our sun will not become a blackhole.

Answer 3

No. The Sun does does not have enough mass to explode and thus turn into a black hole. Our Sun will end it's life by turning into a red giant, swallowing the Earth and then eventually fading into a white dwarf.

Answer 4

no the sun is to small. the sun would have to be at the very least 2 to 3 times larger than it is right now. it will just expand taking out Mercury venus earth and possibly mars then become a white dwarf

Answer 5

That is unlikely. Stars the mass of our Sun will eventually become white dwarves. It requires a larger mass than that of our Sun to become a neutron star, and even more mass to become a black hole. So, unless our Sun acquires a LOT more mass (by some matter that falls into the Sun), it won't become a black hole.

Answer 6

No, the sun does not have enough mass to become a black hole. After it exhausts its nuclear fuel, the sun will expand into a red giant and eventually shed its outer layers to form a white dwarf.

Answer 7

No, the sun cannot become a black hole. Our local star has insufficient mass to be a candidate for that fate.

Answer 8

No. The Sun will end it's life as a white dwarf.

The Sun does not have enough mass to become a black hole.

Answer 9

No. Only the most massive stars several times that of the sun become black holes.

Answer 10

yes as long as the are big enough sun is not big enough