Will our Sun become a black hole?

Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it's too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to end its life as a black hole.
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What would happen if our Sun became a black hole?

Our Sun is too small a star to end its life as a black hole. But what would happen if the Sun were suddenly replaced with a black hole of the same mass? Contrary to popular belief, the Solar System would not be sucked in: a solar-mass black hole would exert no more gravitational pull than our Sun.
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Will our Sun go supernova and become a black hole?

No supernova, no black hole

Our sun isn't massive enough to trigger a stellar explosion, called a supernova, when it dies, and it will never become a black hole either.
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Is there a black hole in our Solar System 2021?

Even if they make up just a quarter of dark matter, Earth has still encountered a primordial black hole once before and is likely to do so again. Our planet getting hit by a black hole sounds apocalyptic, but it isn't necessarily.
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Is Earth in danger of a black hole?

Since this black hole already weighs a few million times the mass of the Sun, there will only be small increases in its mass if it swallows a few more Sun-like stars. “There is no danger of the Earth (located 26,000 light years away from the Milky Way's black hole) being pulled in.
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Will Earth go into a black hole?

Despite their abundance, there is no reason to panic: black holes will not devour Earth nor the Universe. It is incredibly unlikely that Earth would ever fall into a black hole. This is because, at a distance, their gravitational pull is no more compelling than a star of the same mass.
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How long will the Earth last?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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Will the Sun eventually explode?

After the sun has burned through most of the hydrogen in its core, it will transition to its next phase as a red giant. At this point roughly 5 billion years in the future, the sun will stop generating heat via nuclear fusion, and its core will become unstable and contract, according to NASA.
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Will the Sun ever burn out?

Eventually, the fuel of the sun - hydrogen - will run out. When this happens, the sun will begin to die. But don't worry, this should not happen for about 5 billion years. After the hydrogen runs out, there will be a period of 2-3 billion years whereby the sun will go through the phases of star death.
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Can a wormhole exist?

Einstein's theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. A negative mass wormhole might be spotted by the way its gravity affects light that passes by.
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Will our Sun become a red giant?

A red giant is a dying star in the final stages of stellar evolution. In about five billion years, our own sun will turn into a red giant, expand and engulf the inner planets — possibly even Earth.
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How long would we survive without the sun?

Within a few days, however, the temperatures would begin to drop, and any humans left on the planet's surface would die soon after. Within two months, the ocean's surface would freeze over, but it would take another thousand years for our seas to freeze solid.
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What is the oldest planet?

The exoplanet known as PSR B12620-26 b is the oldest known planet in the universe, with an estimated age of about 13 billion years.
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Is the sun going to explode in 2020?

While the full death of the Sun is still trillions of years away, some scientists believe the current phase of the Sun's life cycle will end as soon as 5 billion years from now. At that point, the massive star at the center of our Solar System will have eaten through most of its hydrogen core.
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How many more years until the Earth explodes?

Four billion years from now, the increase in Earth's surface temperature will cause a runaway greenhouse effect, creating conditions more extreme than present-day Venus and heating Earth's surface enough to melt it. By that point, all life on Earth will be extinct.
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Will the sun swallow the Earth?

The Sun will lose enough mass that its gravity will weaken, and that means the planets' orbits will expand. The problem is that the Earth is pretty much on the line dividing getting swallowed by the red giant Sun and moving away enough to escape that fate.
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Is the sun getting hotter?

The Sun is becoming increasingly hotter (or more luminous) with time. However, the rate of change is so slight we won't notice anything even over many millennia, let alone a single human lifetime. Eventually, however, the Sun will become so luminous that it will render Earth inhospitable to life.
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How long do we have to save the Earth 2021?

The answer is to reduce our carbon footprint, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions dramatically. Many climate experts say we have nine years left, until 2030, before we begin to hit a tipping point from which there may be no return.
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Will humans go extinct?

Scientists estimate modern humans have been around about 200,000 years, so that should give us at least another 800,000 years. Other scientists believe we could be here another two million years…or even millions of years longer. On the other hand, some scientists believe we could be gone in the next 100 years.
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What will cause human extinction?

Potential anthropogenic causes of human extinction include global thermonuclear war, deployment of a highly effective biological weapon, an ecological collapse, runaway artificial intelligence, runaway nanotechnology (such as a grey goo scenario), a scientific accident involving a micro black hole or vacuum ...
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What are the chances of a black hole hitting Earth 2021?

In fact, if we're only considering a collision between a black hole and Earth, the odds are minuscule: about 1-in-40 billion over the history of the Earth, and about 1-in-1020 (or, written out, 1-in-100,000,000,000,000,000,000) with each passing year, or your odds of winning the lotto jackpot three times in a row.
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Is our universe in a black hole?

The birth of our universe may have come from a black hole. Most experts agree that the universe started as an infinitely hot and dense point called a singularity.
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