Me and my friend were talking about a slightly related subject over some brews and I started to think. Is it a big enough star to create a black hole and destroy this system? Would humans have to leave the entire system to survive however many thousand years from now?
2007-05-03 15:53:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
No. It will become a white dwarf (most likely) or a neutron star. You need to be above about 3 solar masses (the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit) to get a black hole.
But the Earth will be long gone before that happens. In an earlier phase the sun will become much larger and vaporize the Earth.
All this is many millions of years off. If humans survive that long they may have the technology to go elsewhere.
More here:
http://www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/evol_sun.htm
2007-05-03 17:21:49 · answer #1 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The solar system will already be destroyed by the time the sun explodes. All of our oceans will be dried up and if we dont move to another planet or underground then the human race will be wiped out. This will all happen in about a billion years. I do not beleive the sun exploding will make a black hole.
2007-05-04 12:48:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, stars the size of the Sun can't go nova, nor form black holes, but as the first answerer said, it'll become a red giant and engulf the Earth.
A star should have about 20 times the mass of our Sun at the moment of collapse to form a blackhole, and consider that before collapsing, the star expells much of it's mass.
2007-05-03 16:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by javier S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It desires to be approximately 20 circumstances the dimensions of the solar to grow to be a black hollow. Our solar will grow to be a white dwarf. inspite of the undeniable fact that, if at some later time the solar as a white dwarf turns right into a binary pair with a extensive action picture star, and it accretes sufficient count to arise to a million.4 image voltaic a lot, it fairly is going to explode in a kind Ia supernova and grow to be a black hollow.
2016-12-10 18:49:31 · answer #4 · answered by schebel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think it's supposed to become a red giant eventually, so it won't become a black hole, but it will expand to encompass the area past earth's orbit almost to mars I think.
2007-05-03 15:57:02 · answer #5 · answered by Angie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
many scientists say no because the sun is a different kind of a star. but who knows
2007-05-03 18:20:01 · answer #6 · answered by Kristenite’s Back! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋