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<\/p>\nScientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands have calculated the exact moment when our universe will cease to exist.<\/p>\n
Their groundbreaking research reveals that everything will end in one quinvigintillion years – a one followed by 78 zeros.<\/p>\n
This timeline is significantly shorter than previous estimates, which suggested the universe would last for 10 to the power of 1,100 years.<\/p>\n
The dramatic reduction comes after researchers discovered that the universe is decaying much faster than previously thought.<\/p>\n
The new research suggests everything will end in one quinvigintillion years<\/p>\n
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The key discovery is that neutron stars and white dwarfs can evaporate through a process similar to Hawking radiation, which was previously thought only to affect black holes.<\/p>\n
This radiation causes these dead stars to dissipate and eventually explode when they become too unstable.<\/p>\n
Researchers showed that all objects with a gravitational field can evaporate in this way.<\/p>\n
Massive stars explode into supernovas before collapsing into neutron stars, while smaller stars will become white dwarfs.<\/p>\n
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n These “dead” stars can exist for extremely long periods, but their eventual decay helps scientists determine the universe’s maximum lifespan.<\/p>\n According to lead researcher Heino Falcke, past studies failed to account for Hawking radiation, leading to an overestimation of the universe’s lifespan.<\/p>\n The team corrected this by calculating the time it takes for neutron stars and white dwarfs to decay through this process.<\/p>\n Their findings have been accepted for publication by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.<\/p>\n ‘The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected’<\/p>\n GETTY<\/p>\n Professor Falcke said in a statement: “The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time.”<\/p>\n In 1975, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking suggested that particles and radiation could escape from black holes, contradicting the belief that nothing escapes their gravitational pull.<\/p>\n According to Hawking’s theory, temporary particles can form at a black hole’s edge. Before they merge, one particle is sucked back whilst the other escapes.<\/p>\n These escaped particles constitute Hawking radiation, causing black holes to gradually decay.<\/p>\n The team used their 2023 study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, as groundwork for this discovery. In that earlier work, they demonstrated that all objects with a gravitational field should be able to evaporate via a similar process.<\/p>\n Their calculations suggested that the evaporation rate depends only on the object’s density, which offers a new perspective on Hawking’s theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands have calculated the exact moment when our universe will cease to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[12,70,512,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-99143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-sgg","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114502789101405160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Planet](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/planet-earth.jpg\")