At some point, all stars must die, but when they do, they pass into an afterlife.
A smaller body, such as the sun, will probably contract and become stable as a very dense “dwarf.”. A neutron star, which is a clump of subatomic particles only a few miles across but with gravity powerful enough to slow down time and shred surrounding bodies into “spaghettified” streams of matter, could form from the collapse of a larger star. However, death for the largest stars entails a metamorphosis into something that defies both thought and description. Taken down by their own weight, they collapse.
an implosion so complete that everything we know about physics is untied nearby and spacetime is punctured.A black hole is the resultant gravitational vortex that overwhelms all matter, energy, and brightness, even the star’s own. Once light stray into reach, it is impossible for it to escape. A black hole makes a squeeze in the universe, compressing the fabric tightly about itself to form an envelope of impenetrable blackness, much like an invisible seam in an article of clothing. It can only be understood in terms of its consequences, which include the “lensing” or distortion of spacetime and its remarkable gravitational field.
