Scientists Confirm The Universe Is Dying, According To New Study

In an extremely precise study, a group of almost 100 international scientists found that the universe is dying. Why, you ask? Mostly because the rate of stars fading is out outpacing the creation of new stars, which they found through using the strongest telescopes, including the Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales and NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft, to study data from about 220,000 galaxies. The stars gave the scientists a glimpse into the far past since some of the stars’ light has traveled for billions of years in order for it to be visible from the Earth.

Simon Driver, an astronomer at the University of Western Australia told the Los Angeles Times, “We’d seen this decline in just the ultraviolet light, but we didn’t know whether it was happening at all wavelengths or not.” The thing is, by looking at such distant galaxies, the researchers found that the universe was producing roughly twice as much light, two billion years ago, than it is today. “We've got three different indicators – we've got the total energy output, we’ve got rate at which galaxies are merging and we’ve got the star formation rate,” Driver explained.

Further on, Driver explained that this shows the universe is in a type of “nodding off phase” at the moment. This, however doesn’t mean the universe will go away when it ‘dies.’ Astronomer Luke Davies told CNN, “It will just grow old forever, and will become a cold, dark and desolate place, where all of the lights go out.”