The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of three scientists at Radboud University on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 10⁷⁸ years (a 1 with 78 zeros) to perish. That is much shorter than the previously postulated 10¹¹⁰⁰ years (a 1 with 1100 zeros).