{"id":217700,"date":"2025-12-30T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217700\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:35:08","slug":"scientists-reveal-how-our-universe-could-end-after-surprising-discovery-on-desi-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217700\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal how our universe could END after ‘surprising discovery’ on Desi telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team of South Korean researchers have uncovered evidence behind how our universe could end after a breakthrough telescope discovery.<\/p>\n

Scientists have said that mysterious dark energy might bring about the universe’s demise through a phenomenon called the “Big Crunch”.<\/p>\n

Their analysis points to a scenario where the constant expansion of the universe could start going backwards, with gravity drawing galaxies back towards one another.<\/p>\n

Should a “Big Crunch” occur, the first visible signs would appear in the night sky – with clusters of galaxies merging and stars colliding above us.<\/p>\n

Telescopes would detect the cosmic microwave background warming dramatically, eventually reaching thousands of degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

Currently, this background radiation sits at roughly minus 270 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, all matter would condense into a single, vast fireball.<\/p>\n

The scientists behind this research believe they may be approaching one of astronomy’s most significant breakthroughs in decades.<\/p>\n

\"Deep-field<\/p>\n

A team of South Korean researchers have uncovered evidence behind how our universe could end<\/p>\n

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And while other experts in the field have challenged their conclusions, they have been unable to throw them out altogether.<\/p>\n

Rather than continuing to spread apart indefinitely, cosmic matter could eventually collapse inward if these findings prove accurate.<\/p>\n

Prior to 1998, astronomers had assumed the universe’s post-Big Bang expansion would gradually slow down due to gravitational effects.<\/p>\n

That year, however, scientists identified dark energy as a force accelerating cosmic expansion.<\/p>\n

Some theoretical models predicted this would eventually scatter stars so far apart that the night sky would appear virtually empty.<\/p>\n

Alternative hypotheses went further still, proposing a “Big Rip” scenario in which even atoms would be torn apart.<\/p>\n

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These earlier predictions assumed dark energy would remain constant or strengthen over time.<\/p>\n

But the new South Korean research says the mysterious force may actually be weakening.<\/p>\n

Professor Young Wook Lee of Yonsei University in Seoul led the team that revisited supernova data first used to identify dark energy nearly 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

After making adjustments to their analysis, the researchers concluded dark energy had not only varied over time but that cosmic acceleration was actually diminishing.<\/p>\n

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Data gathered in March from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (pictured) in Arizona’s desert suggested galactic acceleration had shifted over time<\/p>\n

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“The fate of the universe will change,” Prof Lee said.<\/p>\n

Separately, surprising data in March from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (Desi) in Arizona’s desert suggested galactic acceleration had shifted over time.<\/p>\n

Professor Ofer Lahav of University College London told the BBC: “Now with this changing dark energy going up and then down, again, we need a new mechanism. And this could be a shake up for the whole of physics.”<\/p>\n

But Professor George Efstathiou of Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy has disputed Professor Lee’s theory.<\/p>\n

Prof Efstathiou branded the idea “weak”, adding he thought the idea was “just reflecting the messy details of supernovas”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team of South Korean researchers have uncovered evidence behind how our universe could end after a breakthrough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,40822,247],"class_list":["post-217700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-sgg","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}