Do you need to worry about the Sun turning into a black hole?
Some stars turn into black holes at the end of their lifespans, once they stop burning the fuel in their cores.
Do you need to worry about the Sun turning into a black hole? – Anonymous, age 7 from Chicago, Illinois. Our Sun is simply too small to become a black hole. Black holes form only when massive stars collapse under their own gravitational pull. When a star exhausts its fuel, it will expand and cool, eventually becoming a white dwarf, a dense but stable object.
As the Sun ages, it will expand, turning into a red giant and potentially engulfing Earth. However, this will happen long after humans are long gone from Earth. At that point, there will be no danger from the Sun becoming a black hole.
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