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If the sun suddenly became a black hole ... without any change in its mass ... then,

first of all, we wouldn't know about it for about 8 minutes. After that time passed,

the daytime side of the Earth would suddenly go dark, and wherever the moon

happened to be at the time, it would also disappear from view, since there would

no longer be any light shining on it. Similarly, anybody watching any of the planets

or asteroids at the time would see them disappear from view one at a time ... the

nearer ones first, then the farther ones. After that, nothing much would change

for a while ... it would just stay dark everywhere on Earth. But after a short time,

we would begin to notice that it was definitely getting chilly, and that would be the

thing that would pretty much tell us that 'this is it'. We might prolong the agony for

a while by staying inside shelter and burning our fuel supply for heat and light, but

that couldn't last very long. With no sunlight to grow any food or to maintain a

survivable environment, it would be 'curtains' sooner or later.

If you expected some gory description of getting sucked into the hole and dying,

there's no reason to think that. The black hole has some mass, just like it had

when it was a shining star. The Earth is still in orbit around it, and there's no

reason for any of that to change. Black holes don't reach out and grab things.

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