{"id":2975,"date":"2025-07-09T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/universe-death-date-is-a-lot-sooner-than-thought\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:06:12","slug":"universe-death-date-is-a-lot-sooner-than-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/universe-death-date-is-a-lot-sooner-than-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Universe &#039;death date&#039; is a lot sooner than thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-09 16:06:11<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The end of the universe will happen far sooner than thought.<BR><br \/>\nA team of scientists from the US and China have established that the universe will reach its &#8216;death date&#8217; and no longer expand once it turns 33.3 billion years old.<BR><br \/>\nAs the universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old at present, it leaves just over 19 billion years to go before everything ends in what boffins describe as a &#8216;Big Crunch&#8217;.<BR><br \/>\nExperts at New York&#8217;s Cornell University and Shanghai&#8217;s Jiao Tong University have created a new cosmic model that suggests that dark energy &#8211; the force believed to be responsible for the universe&#8217;s expansion &#8211; will weaken over time and ultimately succumb to gravity.<BR><br \/>\nScientists are still attempting to prove that dark energy actually exists but the theory contradicts previous ideas that the universe could continue indefinitely.<BR><br \/>\nNASA&#8217;s Chelsea Gohd said: &#8220;What exactly is dark energy? The short answer is: We don&#8217;t know. But we do know that it exists, it&#8217;s making the universe expand at an accelerating rate, and approximately 68.3 to 70 per cent of the universe is dark energy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-09 16:06:11 The end of the universe will happen far sooner than thought. A team of scientists from the US and China have established that the universe will reach its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}