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How long will it take for the Sun to turn into a black hole?

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Daniel Moore

Published Jan 15, 2026

In about 5 billion years, the Sun will start to run out of hydrogen in its core to fuse, and it will begin to collapse.

Will the Sun become a Blackhole?

No, the Sun is much too small to ever become a black hole. A star has to be much more massive than the Sun before it can collapse into a black hole.

How many suns does it take to make a black hole?

It has a mass equal to about 4 million suns and would fit inside a very large ball that could hold a few million Earths. How Do Black Holes Form? Scientists think the smallest black holes formed when the universe began. Stellar black holes are made when the center of a very big star falls in upon itself, or collapses.

How many years will it take for a black hole to swallow Earth?

If you assume that the black hole would only consume atoms that it happens to run into, then I calculate that it would take about 1028 years for it to consume the entire Earth, far longer than the age of the Universe. This assumes that the black hole wouldn't lose any mass due to Hawking radiation.

What will happen if the 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.

17 related questions found

Can a wormhole exist?

In the early days of research on black holes, before they even had that name, physicists did not yet know if these bizarre objects existed in the real world.

Will a black hole hit Earth?

It's unlikely, however, that any star ever came close enough to knock the other large bodies in our Solar System off course. The closest we can expect another star to have come, over our entire planet's existence, is about ~500 A.U. away, or about ten times the distance from the Sun to Pluto.

Will the Earth get swallowed by the Sun?

Finally, the most probable fate of the planet is absorption by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded beyond the planet's current orbit.

Can black holes swallow planets?

Answer: Black Holes swallow anything that gets trapped in its voracious gravitational pull. Stars, gas, dust, planets, moons, etc. can all be swallowed by a Black Hole.

What year will the Sun explode?

Astronomers estimate that the sun has about 7 billion to 8 billion years left before it sputters out and dies. One way or another, humanity may well be long gone by then.

What will happen if the Sun explode?

After that, the Sun will expand, becoming a red giant. Then it will shrink to become a white dwarf, a dying star, cooling for the next several billion years. Of course, we'll all be long gone before any of that happens. But still, can you imagine what it would be like to watch the Sun blow up before your very eyes?

Will the Sun burn out or explode?

Will it burn out? The Sun won't explode. Some stars do explode at the end of their lives, an explosion that outshines all the other stars in their galaxy added together - something we call a “supernova”. That spectacular fate only happens for the most massive stars, however.

Will the Sun go nova?

Our sun is too small to go nova or supernova. It will ultimately enter a red giant stage and then collapse as a white dwarf. It would need to be at least eight times more massive to nova.

What if you fell into the Sun?

At the temperature of the Sun, most of the molecules that make up our bodies could not even survive, that is why we would not only fry and die, we would really disintegrate (all the molecules breaking apart, leaving only loose atoms).

Will 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.

How long will humans last?

Current population predictions vary. But the general consensus is that it'll top out sometime midcentury and start to fall sharply. As soon as 2100, the global population size could be less than it is now. In most countries—including poorer ones—the birth rate is now well below the death rate.

What if Jupiter hit the Sun?

If Jupiter were mixed throughout the sun, the temperature of the sun would decrease slightly, and perhaps it would take a few hundred years for the sun's temperature to return to its previous level, and maybe we would get a few basis points less solar radiation, but it wouldn't go out. Highly active question.

How much does Earth cost?

In fact, according to one astrophysicist who came up with a calculation for valuing planets, Earth is worth a bank-breaking $5 quadrillion dollars, unsurprisingly the priciest in the solar-system.

Can Superman lift the Earth?

Superman can lift things we humans can't even fathom moving. His strength is one of his most prominent superpowers, but it might also be the power that is most taken for granted. Superman's strength has a lot to do with his history...and the fact that he is actually an alien. Superman was born on the planet Krypton.

Can a black hole swallow a galaxy?

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.

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.

Can you survive a black hole?

Regardless of the explanation, we do know that it is highly unlikely that anyone entering a black hole would survive. Nothing escapes a black hole. Any trip into a black hole would be one way. The gravity is too strong and you could not go back in space and time to return home.