Universe ‘death date’ is a lot sooner than thought
The end of the universe will be much earlier without thinking.
A team of scientists from the United States and China found that the universe will reach the ‘date of death’ and that it would no longer expand when it was 33.3 billion.
Since the universe is now estimated to be 13.8 billion years old, everything is devoted to a little more than 19 billion years before it ends with what Boffins describes as a ‘big cream’.
Experts at the University of Cornell in New York and Shanghai at Jiao Tong University created a new cosmic model that shows that the dark energy, which is believed to be responsible for the expansion of the universe, will weaken over time and ultimately defeat it to gravity.
Scientists are still trying to prove that dark energy actually exists, but the theory contradicts the previous ideas that the universe can continue indefinitely.
NASA’s Chelsea Gohd said: “What exactly is the dark energy? Short answer: We don’t know. But we know that it exists, it expands the universe at a rate of accelerating and about 68.3 to 70 percent of the universe is dark energy.”
