The Sun and Earth become black holes

The Sun would be a black hole if it's radius were not it's actual value (about 450,000 miles), but, instead, just under 2 miles. The whole of the sun squeezed to fit comfortably within upper Manhattan. A teaspoonful of such a compressed sun would weigh about as much as Mouunt Everest. To make a black hole out of the earth we would need to crush it into a sphere whose radius is less than half an inch. For a long time physicists were skeptical about whether such extreme configurations of matter could ever actually occur. Nevertheless , during the last decade , an increasingly convincing body of experimental evidence for the existence of black holes has accumulated.