According to a US scientist, the end of the universe will be a “death by heat” and it will become a “sad, lonely and cold” place.

Conspiracy theories about when and how the “end of the world” will be were always a constant in the study of science and even motivated dozens of science fiction films. However, a latest study by scientists from the University of Illinois was able to elucidate what the end of the universe, and it differs a lot from the big Hollywood explosions and catastrophes.

The research, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, points out that sometime during the “next billion years”, when the universe is dead as we know it, the stars will continue to explode, not with a giant bang, but “very, very slowly.”

When the universe “dies”, it will be “a somewhat sad, lonely and cold place”, explained in a statement the theoretical physicist Matt Caplan, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois and director of the research. The end of the universe is “known as ‘death by heat’, where only black holes and burned stars “, Caplan added.

At the same time, the scientist pointed out that there is no reason to be alarmed, since this is possible that it will occur in the very distant future: “In years, it would be like saying the word ‘trillion’ almost a hundred times“, he assured.

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From the research, Caplan explained that it is possible to determine what the stellar explosions of the future. Describe a scene of huge white dwarfs that will explode in a supernova. As they become more dense, they will become “black dwarf” stars capable of producing iron in their cores.

“As white dwarfs cool over the next trillions of years, they will become dimmer, eventually freeze, and become ‘black dwarf’ stars that no longer glow,” explained Caplan.

As predicted by the scientist, only the heaviest black dwarfs, which range between 1.2 and 1.4 solar masses, will explode like this. This means that 1% of the stars estimated to exist in the entire universe will die in this way.

Caplan calculated that all black dwarfs destined to explode will have done so in 10 ^ 32,000 years. Therefore, from that moment on, the universe will be dead and silent. “It’s hard to imagine anything happening after that. Black dwarf supernovae could be the last cool thing to happen in the universe. ”

By then, the appearance of the universe will not resemble what we know today: “The galaxies will have dispersed, the black holes will have evaporated, the expansion of the universe will have moved the objects so far that none of them will see the others explode. It will be physically impossible for them to light can travel so far. There will only be infinite blackness in all its dimensions, “he concluded.

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