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If you’re having trouble sleeping at night, have you tried to induce total existential dread by contemplating the end of the entire Universe? If not, here’s a rundown of five ideas exploring ...

Our universe is racing toward its destruction as we speak. The end is not going to be especially pleasant, but when that end will happen is still a point of contention amongst cosmologists.

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Unexpected epochs of stillness that punctuate the cosmic timeline could offer a natural explanation for dark matter and many other unsolved astronomical mysteries ...

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From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

The article explores several potential scenarios for the end of the universe, including heat death, the Big Rip, the Big Crunch, phase transitions, and conformal cyclic cosmology. It highlights ...