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A black hole doesn't cause anything. It is a gravity trap - a place where gravity has gotten so strong nothing can escape (excluding Hawking radiation at the event horizon.) What happens is a star (or stars) is (are) so heavy after burning much of their hydrogen into helium that the star(s) start to collapse in on itself. If there is a certain amount of mass at a certain distance (critical mass) then even light can't escape the gravitational pull and now it is a black hole. Because energy can't just disappear and Hawking radiation exists, after enough time a black hole can expend itself - burned so much matter to energy that it 'dies' - that is it expends the last of it's energy in a humongous burst of radiation - an explosion of light if you will and all that's left are those echoes of it's death.

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