Universe May Decay Faster Than Expected New Study Suggests
According to scientists, the universe is decaying far more quickly than people previously thought. The latest study has warned of the universe to potentially speed up decaying toward the end of the world. It is already already established by scientists that the world will have an end.
The latest research pointed out not only black holes but other objects could evaporate through a process similar to Hawking radiation, as reported by The Independent. Eventually, through that process, the black hole very slowly decays, becoming particles and radiation instead.
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The study calculates the evaporation time of the white dwarf stars based on Hawking radiation, which is now estimated at 10 to the power of 78 years. The research paper from Radboud University, published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, pointed out that though the end of the universe is approaching much faster than expected, it still takes a very long time, observes Heino Falcke, a black hole expert who was lead author on the new paper.
Notably, the new research builds on Hawking radiation, which was first proposed by Stephen Hawking in 1975. He had noted that it was possible for black particles and radiation to escape from a black hole – at the edge, two particles would form, with one being sucked into the black hole and another escaping.
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The study also follows a 2023 paper that showed not only black holes but other objects could evaporate through a process similar to Hawking radiation. It is reported that the time that process takes for an object to evaporate depends on how dense it is. Neutron stars and stellar black holes take 10–67 years, for instance.
