# Betelgeuse becoming a black hole.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 23, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/betelgeuse-becoming-a-black-hole/568704 "2011-01-23T22:31:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/betelgeuse-becoming-a-black-hole/568704/41 "2011-04-04T09:34:30Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> The only influence would be that Orion would look funny without his shoulder.

Just look for the attack ships on fire.

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