Will the universe go dark?

The known laws of physics suggest that by about 10100 (the No. 1 followed by 100 zeros) years from now, star birth will cease, galaxies will go dark, and even black holes will evaporate through a process known as Hawking radiation, leaving little more than simple subatomic particles and energy.
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Will the universe get dark?

The universe will become extremely dark after the last stars burn out. Even so, there can still be occasional light in the universe. One of the ways the universe can be illuminated is if two carbon–oxygen white dwarfs with a combined mass of more than the Chandrasekhar limit of about 1.4 solar masses happen to merge.
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What will happen when the universe goes dark?

As existing stars run out of fuel and cease to shine, the universe will slowly and inexorably grow darker. Eventually black holes will dominate the universe, which themselves will disappear over time as they emit Hawking radiation.
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How much longer will the universe last?

Soon, perhaps within about 65 million years, that acceleration could stop altogether — then, within as few as 100 million years from now, dark energy could become attractive, causing the entire universe to start contracting. In other words, after nearly 14 billion years of growth, space could start to shrink.
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Will the universe become empty?

Yet even if you took away every single quantum of energy, somehow removing it from the Universe entirely, you wouldn't be left with an empty Universe. No matter how much you take out of it, the Universe will always generate new forms of energy.
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TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)



When did the universe become dark?

The pattern of fluctuations we see in the CMB is the earliest evidence we have for dark matter in our Universe, dating from approximately 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
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Will the universe shut down?

According to our best models of the evolution of the universe, the most likely scenario is what's called the Big Freeze. If dark energy keeps accelerating the expansion of the universe forever – and calculations suggest that it will – then the cosmos is in for a slow death that's drawn out for a googol years.
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What are 3 ways the universe could end?

The rate of this expansion may eventually tear the Universe apart, forcing it to end in a Big Rip. Alternatively, the Universe could 'shrink', decrease or decay, effectively reversing the Big Bang and destroying the Universe in a Big Crunch. A third theory is described as the Big Freeze.
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Who created the universe?

Many religious persons, including many scientists, hold that God created the universe and the various processes driving physical and biological evolution and that these processes then resulted in the creation of galaxies, our solar system, and life on Earth.
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What was there before the universe?

In the beginning, there was an infinitely dense, tiny ball of matter. Then, it all went bang, giving rise to the atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies we see today. Or at least, that's what we've been told by physicists for the past several decades.
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What is outside the universe?

By definition, the universe is everything, so there is nothing external to it for it to expand into.
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Can you touch dark matter?

In fact, recent estimates put dark matter as five times more common than regular matter in our universe. But because dark matter does not interact electromagnetically, we can't touch it, see it, or manipulate it using conventional means. You could, in principle, manipulate dark matter using gravitational forces.
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What will be left after the universe dies?

Trillions of years in the future, long after Earth is destroyed, the universe will drift apart until galaxy and star formation ceases. Slowly, stars will fizzle out, turning night skies black. All lingering matter will be gobbled up by black holes until there's nothing left.
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Will humans have to leave Earth?

Although Earth serves as a comfortable home at the moment, we will ultimately be forced to relocate because the sun will boil off all liquid water on our planet's surface within a billion years.
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Will there be an end of time?

The universe will cease to exist around the same time our sun is slated to die, according to new predictions based on the multiverse theory.
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Will time ever go backwards?

The time-reversed situation, where you take a room of even temperature and stick a divider in the middle, spontaneously getting a hot side and a cold side, is so statistically unlikely that, given the finite age of the Universe, it never occurs.
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Will humans ever leave the Milky Way?

The technology required to travel between galaxies is far beyond humanity's present capabilities, and currently only the subject of speculation, hypothesis, and science fiction. However, theoretically speaking, there is nothing to conclusively indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible.
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Does time have a beginning or an end?

In 24-hour time notation, it is both 2400 and 0000. Aristotle appealed to a similar principle when he argued that time can have neither beginning nor end. Every moment is both the end of an era and the start of something new; every event is both the outcome of something and the cause of something else.
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How much of the universe will we never see?

94% of the universe's galaxies are permanently beyond our reach.
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What is the biggest secret of universe?

What is dark energy? It's one of the universe's biggest mysteries: more remains unknown than known about dark energy. It affects the universe's expansion, so physicists are able to infer that dark energy makes up roughly 68% of the universe and it appears to be somehow tied to the vacuum of space.
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What is 96% of the universe made of?

Like the jelly beans in this jar, the Universe is mostly dark: about 96 percent consists of dark energy (about 69%) and dark matter (about 26%). Only about 5 % (the same proportion as the lighter colored jelly beans) of the Universe— including the stars, planets and us—is made of familiar atomic matter.
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How old will the universe get?

There are two competing estimates, based on two competing measurements of the expansion rate of the cosmos, meaning it could be as young as 11.4 billion years … old. The easiest way to get at the age of the universe would be to find the oldest star and then work backwards with what we know about how stars are formed.
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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Who is the God of universe?

Vishnu, Lord of the universe, is a Hindu God known to have reincarnated into more than one form called Avatars. In other words, he is recognizable through the faces of other gods who receive praise within the Hindu beliefs. Here we have sculptures of Vishnu and a few of his forms ranging 8th-19th century.
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Was God created by the universe?

In the Bible it says that 'God created the heavens and the earth' which shows that god created everything. Furthermore, it also says in the Bible that 'the earth was formless and empty'.
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