Webdesk: In a Physical Review Letters research, scientists predicted the cosmos will evaporate.
Radboud University researchers observed Stephen Hawking’s 1974 theory of black hole death, Hawking radiation.
Quantum physics and Einstein’s gravity theory propose that particles spontaneously originate and annihilate near black holes’ event horizons.
Hawking found that some of these particles escape the event horizon as Hawking radiation.
These particles eventually evaporate the black hole.
A black hole in our universe showed a similar phenomenon. It supports late Hawking’s evaporation prediction.
This study found similar radiations in objects without event horizons, not just black holes.
According to research author Heino Falcke, “objects without an event horizon, such as the remnants of dead stars and other large objects in the universe, also have this sort of radiation.”
“And, after a very long period, that would lead to everything in the universe eventually evaporating, just like black holes.”
The findings suggested that Hawking radiation can be caused by any mass that warps space-time, not just severe gravitational situations.
“We show that far beyond a black hole the curvature of space-time plays a big role in creating radiation,” research co-author Walter van Suijlekom remarked.
Scientists’ conclusions and computations need further study and data to substantiate the predictions.
If true, it will not evaporate soon.
Researchers think black holes evaporate longer than the universe’s age, but the time is unknown.
