{"id":222798,"date":"2025-10-02T04:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/data-from-dark-energy-observatories-indicate-universe-may-end-in-a-big-crunch-at-33-billion-years-old"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:38:11","slug":"data-from-dark-energy-observatories-indicate-universe-may-end-in-a-big-crunch-at-33-billion-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/data-from-dark-energy-observatories-indicate-universe-may-end-in-a-big-crunch-at-33-billion-years-old","title":{"rendered":"Data from dark-energy observatories indicate universe may \u2018end in a big crunch\u2019 at 33 billion years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/data-from-dark-energy-observatories-indicate-universe-may-end-in-a-big-crunch-at-33-billion-years-old2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from dark-energy observatories. After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion years from now, it will begin to contract\u2014snapping back like a rubber band to a single point at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from dark-energy observatories. After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion years from now, it will begin to contract\u2014snapping back like a rubber band to a single point at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222798","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}