Eventually, as the star shrinks back to a white dwarf before its final extinction, they are left abandoned in the dark and cease to be.

This was the view of most scientists: Einstein himself wrote a paper in which he claimed that stars would not shrink to zero size.

He watched the star shrink to a point far above him.

The cores of these planets continued to orbit, reemerging once the star shrunk again.

As the star shrank, the gravitational field at the surface would become stronger and the escape velocity would increase.

A new equilibrium is possible after the star shrinks by three orders of magnitude, to a radius between 10 and 20 km.

The cooling causes the pressure to drop and the star or planet shrinks as a result.

The green star abruptly shrank, vanishing into the sparkling cloud of pixie dust.

Low-mass stars slowly shrink and die as they consume their fuels.

As time passed, the star cooled and shrank.