Apparently, every generation in human history has wondered when the end of the world will come, with some even trying to predict the date. Human history counts dozens of “end of the world” dates, but obviously, none of them has turned out to be the right one. Yet.
Theoretical physicist Matt Caplan has predicted when the universe will come to its end – which turns out to be, contrary to most “end of the world” conspiracies, not very soon. In research titled “Black Dwarf Supernova in the Far Future”, earlier teased in media and now published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Caplan claimed the universe will end “over the next few trillion years”.
According to his research, after the formation of new stars has ceased, many white dwarfs may explode in supernovae in the distant future to become black dwarfs – cold stars that no longer shine.
This image made available by NASA shows infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in an area known as the W3 and W5 star-forming regions within the Milky Way Galaxy
When these start to produce enough iron, it will trigger them to explode in supernovae, but, according to Caplan, it is “mindblowingly far in the future”. He said that approximately 1% of existing stars will explode, those that are about 1.2 to 1.4 times the mass of our Sun, and the rest will remain as black dwarfs.
This, Caplan states, might be “the last interesting thing in the universe”.
He elaborated on the fate of our Sun, which, according to him, is not capable of exploding in the predicted scenario, and will apparently remain in the “dead” universe as a black dwarf.
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