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Hawking radiation from a black hole. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Everything in the universe is doomed to evaporate - Hawking's radiation theory is not limited to black holes

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A team of researchers confirmed Hawking's prediction of evaporating black holes, but extended its application to all large objects in the universe
Scientists from the SLAC accelerator and Stanford University combined experimental data and theory to understand how the universe formed and what the future holds. Stringy clumps of dark matter (black regions) serve as scaffolds for the construction of cosmic structures made of normal matter (bright regions), which include stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters. Figure: S Skillman, YY. Mao, KIPAC/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

What does the future hold for the universe? Learning about the future from the distant past

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