Do you need to worry about the Sun turning into a black hole?

An astrophysicist answering a child's question explains that stars end their lives differently depending on mass: the biggest collapse into black holes, midsize ones become neutron stars, and smaller ones like the Sun become white dwarfs.

The Sun will eventually swell into a red giant in about five billion years, possibly engulfing Earth, before cooling into a white dwarf and eventually a black dwarf. Even if the Sun instantly became a black hole today, Earth's orbit would be unaffected since the gravitational pull would stay the same.

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