A thousand stars form from the same cloud of gas. Which of these events do you expect to happen first ?

Question

....to one of the stars in the group?

a white dwarf fades out and becomes no longer visible

a black hole is formed

a K giant star becomes a “horizontal branch” star

a G star leaves the Main Sequence

Answer 1

Given that the RECONS team found no star out of the 345 closest to Earth was close to the mass required to form a black hole there is evidence to say that out of a thousand stars a black hole will never form in which case "a G star leaving the main sequence" would be first.

http://www.chara.gsu.edu/RECONS/census.p...

If you assume that a massive star was created among the 1,000 then a black hole would form first

Answer 2

A darkening white dwarf would be the *last* thing to happen.

G class stars, (like the sun), will remain on the main sequence for around 10 billion years.  Horizontal branch stars evolve from sun-like stars, so this stage won't occur until later.  In the meantime, dozens of giant O, B, and A class stars will complete their main sequence phases and become red giants and then supernova, resulting in black holes.

Your cluster should have many black holes before it has any of the other types.

Answer 3

Is this a trick question?

A thousand stars forming from the same gas cloud produces only one thing - a new Timbaland song.  

Answer 4

Yeah, isn't this just a scientific description of American Idol?