Our Sun is too small a star to end its life as a black hole. But what would happen if the Sun were suddenly replaced with a black hole of the same mass? Contrary to popular belief, the Solar System would not be sucked in: a solar-mass black hole would exert no more gravitational pull than our Sun. As this computer simulation shows, the planets would actually continue on in their orbits as if nothing had happened. Here is a conversation involving the same question (Transcripts of Space Place Musings) What if the Sun became a black hole? Narrator: Welcome to Space Place Musings, where an expert answers questions from our Space Place museum partners across the nation. I'm Diane Fisher of the New Millennium Program, and our expert is Dr. Marc Rayman, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Marc, today we have a question on a subject that often fascinates people: Black holes. It comes from the Paulucci Space Theatre in Hibbing, Minnesota. Here it is: If the Sun became a black hole,