Can a sun be black?

However, there is absolutely no possibility of this happening. Our Sun is too small to become a black hole. For a star to become a black hole, it must be at least ten times the mass of our Sun. More information here.

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What happens if the Sun is black?

What would it be like for us? Well, the black-hole-Sun will not be giving out any light or heat, so prepare for miserable existence in freezing cold and pitch black environment. You will not be able to see the Moon and our neighbor planets on the permanently dark sky anymore, only stars.

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Can the Sun become black?

No. Stars like the Sun just aren't massive enough to become black holes. Instead, in several billion years, the Sun will cast off its outer layers, and its core will form a white dwarf - a dense ball of carbon and oxygen that no longer produces nuclear energy, but that shines because it is very hot.

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What would cause the Sun to go black?

The dark region is called a coronal hole, an area on the surface of the Sun that is cooler and less dense than the surrounding areas. The magnetic fields in these holes are open to space, which allows high density plasma to flow out into space. The lack of plasma in these holes is what makes them appear dark.

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How small would the Sun have to be to be a black hole?

For example, our Sun would become a black hole if its mass was contained within a sphere about 2.5 km across. Our Earth would need to be compressed to a size smaller than 1.77 cm across (diameter).

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What If The Sun Was Black?

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Can we create a black hole?

To make a black hole, one must concentrate mass or energy sufficiently that the escape velocity from the region in which it is concentrated exceeds the speed of light. Some extensions of present physics posit the existence of extra dimensions of space.

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Can a black hole destroy the Milky Way?

Is it possible for a black hole to "eat" an entire galaxy? No. There is no way a black hole would eat an entire galaxy. The gravitational reach of supermassive black holes contained in the middle of galaxies is large, but not nearly large enough for eating the whole galaxy.

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What is it called when the Sun looks black?

Sunspots are areas that appear dark on the surface of the Sun. They appear dark because they are cooler than other parts of the Sun's surface. Solar flares are a sudden explosion of energy caused by tangling, crossing or reorganizing of magnetic field lines near sunspots.

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Does the Sun get hotter black?

Certain colors absorb and trap the sunlight more than others. Light-colored clothing easily reflects the sunlight, while dark clothes have trouble reflecting the sun's rays. Because of that, the dark-colored clothing traps the heat from the sun. This then makes you feel much hotter.

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Why is the sky blue but space is black?

In space or on the Moon there is no atmosphere to scatter light. The light from the sun travels a straight line without scattering and all the colors stay together. Looking toward the sun we thus see a brilliant white light while looking away we would see only the darkness of empty space.

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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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Could a black hole swallow Earth?

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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What will the Sun become when it dies?

Once all the helium disappears, the forces of gravity will take over, and the sun will shrink into a white dwarf. All the outer material will dissipate, leaving behind a planetary nebula. "When a star dies, it ejects a mass of gas and dust — known as its envelope — into space.

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Can our Sun go supernova?

The Sun as a red giant will then... go supernova? Actually, no—it doesn't have enough mass to explode. Instead, it will lose its outer layers and condense into a white dwarf star about the same size as our planet is now.

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Is black really hotter than white?

Black absorbs all visible parts of the spectrum, turning that light energy into heat. The more energy it absorbs, the more heat it emits. White and silver, however, behave in the opposite manner, reflecting all light thrown their way. The result here is less energy absorption and less heat emission.

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Is black Hotter Than white?

Truly, black fabric feels hotter because it absorbs heat from both the sun and your skin. White fabric, on the other hand, could reflect that heat back to you. The best path to staying cool in the sun is to choose loose-fitting UPF clothing that wicks the heat away.

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Is black actually hotter?

The outer layer of fabric does get hotter because the black color absorbs more heat. And that heat doesn't get transmitted to the skin because of the thick fabric. But thin black clothing transmits that heat to the skin, making a person hotter.

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Is the Sun a true black body?

The Sun emits at almost all wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation but 99% of the emitted radiation is in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions. The Sun is a nonideal blackbody, emitting more radiation than expected in the X-ray and far-UV as well as the radio regions of the spectrum.

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Is the Dark sun Real?

It's the coldest brown dwarf ever seen, with a temperature of just 130 to 230 °C. And it's the dimmest: it emits only 0.000026 per cent as much energy as our sun, and this energy emerges at infrared rather than visible wavelengths.

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When was the Sun black?

On the last day of February, 1206, according to a Spanish writer, there was complete darkness for six hours. In 1241, "five months after the Mongol battle of Leignitz," the sun was so obscured, and the darkness became so great, that the stars were seen at the ninth hour about Michaelmas.

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What happens when a black hole dies?

As black holes evaporate, they get smaller and smaller and their event horizons get uncomfortably close to the central singularities. In the final moments of black holes' lives, the gravity becomes too strong, and the black holes become too small, for us to properly describe them with our current knowledge.

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What can destroy a galaxy?

"Black holes form inside their host galaxies and grow inproportion to them, forming an accretion disc which will eventually destroy thehost," he added. "In this sense they can be described as viral innature."

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Can anything escape a black hole?

Black holes are dark, dense regions in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. Not even light can get out of these regions. That is why we cannot see black holes—they are invisible to our eyes. Because nothing can get out of black holes, physicists struggle understanding these objects.

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How long is 1 minute in a black hole?

One hour for a black hole observer would equate to 100,000,000 years for a person on Earth. Therefore one minute in a black hole would be roughly 1,700,000 years.

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