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It's so interesting! The funny thing is the light coming from the Star will be travelling at the same speed of light as per Einsteins Special Theory of Relativity!

Thank you very much for your suggestions :) I will look them up, especially "Why the sky is blue"! I've heard great things about it.

I've had the pleasure of reading 'A Brief History of Time' by the late and great Stephen Hawking and 'Forces of Nature' by Brian Cox. More recently I've read 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry' by Neil deGrasse Tyson. What I've noticed is the less difficult reads were also the more enjoyable...

I don't want to ask this question in fear of sounding silly but will VY Canis Majoris definitely turn into a Black Hole once it goes Hypernova, or, is there a chance it would be too violent to create one? ''it takes over 8 HOURS for photons to travel from one side of the star to the other.''

I've developed a bit of an interest with Black Holes since the first picture of M87*. They are incredible! My question is, if black holes really do rip the fabric of space-time and if black holes move through space(quite fast), wouldn't that mean the black hole would be constantly ripping...