{"id":214760,"date":"2025-05-26T02:08:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/everything-evaporates-from-neutron-stars-to-you-the-universe-is-on-a-clock"},"modified":"2025-05-26T02:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:08:50","slug":"everything-evaporates-from-neutron-stars-to-you-the-universe-is-on-a-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/everything-evaporates-from-neutron-stars-to-you-the-universe-is-on-a-clock","title":{"rendered":"Everything Evaporates: From Neutron Stars to You, the Universe Is on a Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/everything-evaporates-from-neutron-stars-to-you-the-universe-is-on-a-clock.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if black holes weren\u2019t the only things slowly vanishing from existence? Scientists have now shown that all dense cosmic bodies\u2014from neutron stars to white dwarfs\u2014might eventually evaporate via Hawking-like radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Even more shocking, the end of the universe could come far sooner than expected, \u201conly\u201d 10<sup>78<\/sup> years from now, not the impossibly long 10<sup>1100<\/sup> years once predicted. In an ambitious blend of astrophysics, quantum theory, and math, this playful yet serious study also computes the eventual fates of the Moon\u2014and even a human.<\/p>\n<p>Black Holes Aren\u2019t Alone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if black holes weren\u2019t the only things slowly vanishing from existence? Scientists have now shown that all dense cosmic bodies\u2014from neutron stars to white dwarfs\u2014might eventually evaporate via Hawking-like radiation. Even more shocking, the end of the universe could come far sooner than expected, \u201conly\u201d 1078 years from now, not the impossibly long 101100 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}