What three things can a massive star become?

Answer 1

a star of about sun's mass will become a white dwarf star and will fade slowly into a black dwarf. a star of sun's 1.4 to 3 time the mass of the sun will become a neutron star. a star of more than 3 times of mass of the sun will become a black hole. hopes its help!!

Answer 2

After being red giants for a "short" while they turn into their final state called white dwarves. A white dwarf consist of very dense matter which makes them small but very heavy, they can be the size of earth but weigh just as much as the sun. Almost all stars in the milkyway will end like this.

Answer 3

The final stage of the Sun is a black dwarf.

After the Sun has used up all of it's hydrogen, it will come off of the main sequence and slowly evolve into a red giant. This will continue for about a billion years before the no defunct Sun blows off it's outer envelope, creating a planetary nebula. What remains is a the hot remains of the core or white dwarf. Over billions of years (many billion) the remnants will have cooled so much that no light is emitted and then the Sun will have died as a black dwarf.

Answer 4

low mass stars never obtain the high temperatures and pressure to fuse helium. so its only energy source is hydrogen fusion. thus low mass stars never become red giants, they resume stable main sequence stars. to they consume all there hydrogen fuel and collapse into hot, dense white dwarfs unable to support nuclear burning.

Answer 5

Stellar fate is linked to stellar mass. For the very low mass Red Dwarfs, the final stage is a White Dwarf star. For Sun sized stars, the end stage is again a White Dwarf, following a brief fling as a Red Giant. For moderately more massive stars, it's still a White Dwarf. For really massive stars, it's a Neutron Star, and for the most massive of all, a Black Hole.

Answer 6

if its classified as a super giant it can become a neutron star, a black hole, or a super nova. if its classified as a giant it will most likely form into a white dwarf and then a black dwarf.

Answer 7

They swell into a more massive star like a balloon. But the balloon still has the same amount of mass, so the super giant has the same mass thus the same gravity. After a while, the supergiant will collapse in an explosion called a supernova. The result depends on the size of the original star. The smaller massive ones will turn into a neutron star while a massive massive one will collapse so many times into itself, that not even neutron and electrons can stop it, causing a black hole that sucks up everything that goes into its event horizon, but the gravity outside is still the same

Answer 8

There is energy and radiation pulling out of the nucleus, creating a huge outward pressure. And then there is the gravitational pull of all that mass that contracts the matter in the star keeping it whole.

This is a fragile equilibrium. If the nuclear reactions in the nucleus start failing this equilibrium is violated, thus the star expands, and within the nucleus, new nuclear reactions start occurring creating new, different chemical elements. And then these reactions also cease originating another cycle of expansion

This goes on until the star is a super giant. It will come to a point when the equilibrium is not achieved, and the star expands so dramatically fast that the outer layers of the star are expelled.

Ok, now it gets fun, because there are different outcomes.

For small/medium stars like our own, the outer layers are expelled and the inner layers of the star contract making a white dwarf. This dwarf will eventually go darker and darker until it dies.

Big stars can allow more cycles of expansion, creating heavier and heavier elements. Therefore it will lastly explode very violently. These are called type II supernovas because they release a huge amount of matter and energy into space, and it will glow very bright momentarily, and it will grow dim again, leaving a neutron star. A neutron star is very very smal, but incredibly dense.

The heavier stars will go into supernova, and then, the newtron star is so heavy and dense that the escape velocity at its surphace will be so great that its bigger than the velocity of light. So we cant see the star anymore because there are no more fotons reaching us. They are trapped it the star's gravitational pull. And the name of this strange object is a black hole.

So, short answer to your question is:

supermassive red giant -> explosion -> black hole

Answer 9

A massive star can become a neutron star, a black hole, or undergo a supernova explosion.

Answer 10

it supernovas and becomes either a dwarf star or a black hole