The light from the sun takes 8 mins to reach us on earth, but if it blew up would it be quicker than 8 mins for us to see or would we see quicker than 8 mins?

Question

Google says it would take 170,000 million years and 8.5 minutes

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

If it blows up we won’t know for another 8 minutes. Light travels at the speed of light. There is nothing faster than the speed of light, and so it will take the same amount of time to see it blow up as it takes to travel normally.