The Black Hole

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is so great when it
first collides, that a nuclear reaction occurs and the gases within the
star start to burn continuously. The Hydrogen gas is usually the first
type of gas consumed in a star and then other gas elements such as Carbon,
Oxygen, and Helium are consumed.

This chain reaction fuels the star for millions or billions of years
depending upon the amount of gases there are.

The star manages to avoid collapsing at this point because of the
equilibrium achieved by itself. The gravitational pull from the core of
the star is equal to the gravitational pull of the gases forming a type of
orbit, however when this equality is broken the star can go into several
different stages.

Usually if the star is small in mass, most of the gases will be
consumed while some of it escapes. This occurs because there is not a
tremendous gravitational pull upon those gases and therefore the star
weakens and becomes smaller. It is then referred to as a White Dwarf. If
the star ...

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stars due to the fact that they once were
a star, and this may cause some problems for the neighboring stars. If a
black hole gets powerful enough it may actually pull a star into it and
disrupt the orbit of many other stars. The black hole could then grow even
stronger (from the star's mass) as to possibly absorb another.

When a black hole absorbs a star, the star is first pulled into the
Ergosphere, which sweeps all the matter into the Event Horizon, named for
it's flat horizontal appearance and because this happens to be the place
where mostly all the action within the black hole occurs. When the star is
passed on into the Event Horizon the light that the star endures is ...

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