Or to the extent it is on fire, suddenly going out would not last, since the collapse would recompress its gases and ignite fusion.
So eight minutes from now the sun would blink out and then gradually come back on.
Of course that’s assuming real-world physics like the speed of light and the orbit of Earth. In a fantasy setting the sun might literally be “a hot rock.” Or more interestingly: an eldritch abomination. Either a gateway to an elemental plane of quite a lot of fire, or an entity itself, so large and powerful that we merely exist between its gravitational pull and incandescent energy.
Or to the extent it is on fire, suddenly going out would not last, since the collapse would recompress its gases and ignite fusion.
So eight minutes from now the sun would blink out and then gradually come back on.
Of course that’s assuming real-world physics like the speed of light and the orbit of Earth. In a fantasy setting the sun might literally be “a hot rock.” Or more interestingly: an eldritch abomination. Either a gateway to an elemental plane of quite a lot of fire, or an entity itself, so large and powerful that we merely exist between its gravitational pull and incandescent energy.