Scientists reveal the exact date the universe will end and it's 'sooner than expected'

UNILAD ^ | 5/13/25 | Niamh Shackleton

[DallasBiff]

It looks like the universe may end much sooner than anticipated.

Dutch researchers have looked into the initial theories about when the universe is likely to cease to exist.

The team from Radboud University in the Netherlands put their heads together and used Hawking radiation to come to a conclusion.

This theory is named after the late Stephen Hawking, who came up with the idea that black holes leak radiation and they eventually evaporate.

Scientists at the university then used this theory on other objects in the universe — neutron stars and white dwarfs, for example — and discovered that these things also disappear like black holes.

Neutron stars and white dwarfs are the final stage of a star's life cycle, and while they can remain in this stage for a long time, Radboud researchers have proposed a new theory that they too gradually dissipate like black holes.

[Tom Tetroxide]

ROFLMAO!!!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Ever since he watched, ‘Signs’ with me, he’s been acting this way. He’s never far from his tinfoil hat.

And...he’s not completely WRONG, you know! ;)

[US_MilitaryRules]

That is only 5 billion years.

[GingisK]

October 9, 12:02.124, exactly.