Wanna Know one of the heaviest element around the space? The White Dwarf Birth All large mass stars collapse either to black hole or take a path through neutron star to black hole. But the medium & small stars have a different phenomenon. Suppose our sun(medium sized star in comparison to other stars) has hydrogen within it’s layers i.e the core. Sun's Internal As the temperature is extremely hot in the core so hydrogen fuses to helium which further increases the temperature and pressure builds up which opposes the gravitational force that is pushing the star from the outer layer to collapse it. These two forces (the pressure(force) from inside and the outer gravitational force) balance each other and star maintains it’s size. Now when the Sun uses up all the hydrogen by burning it to helium , the temperature decreases which results in decreasing the pressure which pushes the star outward , and gravitational force takes the edge and star starts collapsing. When the star gets...