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Old 11-29-2010, 01:40 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Our star isn't massive enough to become a black hole. It will expand at the end of its life (and engulf earth), but eventually it will retract and become a white dwarf, smaller in diameter than the current sun.
I didn't actually mean that it's the fate of every star to become a black hole at the end of it's life, even if my post may seem to suggest that. Our star will become part of a black hole when it's mass is one day swallowed up by one.
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