I know I don't properly understand the principle, but as I see it, when a star burns out it either turns to a supernova if it doesn't have enough mass, a black hole if it has too much, or some combination of both. If a huge solid mass, like a lot of asteroids or several planets, were to be consumed by a star, would it have too much mass and collapse in on itself? Complicated question, but I'm just curious.
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No
It would just make it a Bigger Star
Although, the bigger the Star the bigger they Blow
Adam D
To add enough mass, you'd have to add other stars, you couldn't gather enough rocky matter locally. Our sun, for example, contains 99.86% of the mass of our solar system. If you took everything else in the solar system and dropped it onto the sun, it would have very little effect.
CarolOkla
No, not necessarily, and not immediately. Sometimes in binary stars enough mass is added that the more massive star becomes a neutron star when it goes nova, but not a black hole. It does not go Supernova.
Solitary low mass stars like the Sun become white dwarf stars with planetary nebulae after the helium flash after the red giant stage.
Jeffrey K
Low mass stars, like the sun, do not supernova. They just burn out and shrink to be a white dwarf. Stars more than 3 times the sun's mass supernova and the core shrinks to become a white dwarf or neutron star. Huge stars supernova and their core has so much mass that it collapses to a point and becomes a black hole.
Throwing some planets into the sun.wouldn't do anything You need a star many times the sun's mass to make a black hole.