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It'll all start out with a tight battle between two forces: gravity and fusion. This battle will last for a couple million year until the star runs out of energy for the nuclear fusion reactors to "pump out." With gravity's victory, the star's core decreases in size and mutates into a young black hole instantaneously, inhaling all the remains VY Canis Majoris. The black hole won't be able to keep up though, hiccuping its feast of the hypergiant's gaseous material, blasting big energy rays into space. 

 

Then... BOOM!

 

VY Canis Majoris, the largest star, explodes, shooting outward 100 times more energy than what our sun would produce in a year; all in less than a second! These bursts of beams, or rays, of energy (known as gamma ray bursts) move lightning fast, 70,000 kilometers per second, annihilating anything in its path in a blink of an eye. These gamma rays are strong enough to vaporize our planet and still continue full speed ahead, unphased, slash atoms apart, crush neutrons, or mold protons and electrons together. Since VY Canis Majoris is so large, its explosion is predicted to leave behind a black hole instead of the standard neuron star since, thanks to gamma rays, nuerons would be crushed during the initial "boom." Such a star death wouldn't be titled a "supernova," but instead a "hyerpnova." Hypernovae emit more energy than 100 supernovae combine, creating great numbers of gamma ray bursts.