and that includes the universe. But exactly how that end will arrive is a long-standing debate among cosmologists, who offer up theories with terrifying monikers such as “big freeze” or “big ...

The Big Freeze, also known as the Heat Death ... dissipate through a process called Hawking radiation. The universe would end up as a dark, sparse, and eerily quiet vastness near absolute zero ...

A chilling theory suggests the universe may end in a "Big Freeze," drifting into a cold, lifeless void driven by dark energy's relentless expansion. This mysterious force, discovered in the 1990s ...