{"id":225815,"date":"2025-11-25T01:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-universe-could-end-with-a-dark-eternity-an-astrophysicist-explains"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:06:33","slug":"the-universe-could-end-with-a-dark-eternity-an-astrophysicist-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-universe-could-end-with-a-dark-eternity-an-astrophysicist-explains","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Could \u2018End\u2019 With a Dark Eternity, an Astrophysicist Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-could-end-with-a-dark-eternity-an-astrophysicist-explains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether the Universe will \u2018end\u2019 at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity\u2019s cosmic home for a very, very long time.<\/p>\n<p>The Universe \u2013 all of space and time, and all matter and energy \u2013 began about 14 billion years ago in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-could-an-explosive-big-bang-be-the-birth-of-our-universe-128430\">a rapid expansion<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/25126-big-bang-theory.html\">the Big Bang<\/a>, but since then it has been in a state of continuous change.<\/p>\n<p>First, it was full of a diffuse gas of particles that now make up atoms: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/science\/doe-explainsprotons\">protons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/science\/doe-explainsneutrons\">neutrons<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/science\/doe-explainselectrons\">electrons<\/a>. Then, that gas <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/universe\/stars\/\">collapsed into stars and galaxies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the Universe will \u2018end\u2019 at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity\u2019s cosmic home for a very, very long time. The Universe \u2013 all of space and time, and all matter and energy \u2013 began about 14 billion years ago in a rapid expansion called the Big Bang, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}