After deciphering several aspects of how Earth and the Sun would eventually cease to exist, the scientists attempted to grasp how the universe would die. The new result suggests that dark energy is likely weakening throughout the universe and will end in a “big crunch.”
The “big crunch” catastrophe is most likely to happen after millions of years
The “big crunch” catastrophe is most likely to happen after millions of years, but researchers working on a Dark Energy Spectroscopic vision have warned that the world’s future looks bleak.
According to the findings, the universe’s rapid expansion is likely to decrease the energy that forms the atoms.
Luz Angela Garcia Penaloza, a cosmologist at Columbia’s Universidad ECCI and former DESI team member, acknowledged that the effect of dark energy is “decreasing” with time.
Scientists have dubbed this drop in dark energy the “big crunch”
Scientists have dubbed this drop in dark energy the “big crunch.” This observation of the universe implies that it will gradually come to a standstill and eventually collapse.
Luz, an expert in the field, said, “If what the first year of DESI results suggests is true, then the accelerated expansion of the universe will cease and eventually reverse, and the universe could begin drawing together under the influence of gravity.”
“This could eventually lead to the universe ending in a ‘Big Crunch’ scenario,” he added. Meanwhile, an expert said that the big crunch will be “initially” harmless, however, it will eventually develop into a life-killing experience.
Martin Bojowald of Pennsylvania State University stated, “The collapse initially would just be very harmless; the density of the universe would increase, but very slowly. But at some point, the collapse would lead to densities of the same size as the Big Bang.”
Until now, researchers have been unable to build a complete picture of how the “big crunch” will appear.
According to Bojowald, scientists are close to understanding the visual scale of the “big crunch.”
Luz explained the magnitude of the “big crunch” by saying, “We’re going to have a very complementary vision of the universe from two completely different missions.”
He said, “They are going to give us a completely new vision of how the universe is behaving and how dark energy is shaping the larger scale universal structure.”