RE: Will Our Sun Expand and Go Nova or Shrink into a Black Hole?
January 16, 2017 at 9:32 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2017 at 9:42 am by Alex K.)
Re your question: the star mainly needs to be heavy enough to trigger a supernova explosion, but supernovas don't yield white dwarfs, but instead compresses the core to an even denser neutron star, or if the mass is even higher, to a black hole. Or nothing of the star remains at all...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
