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What will be left after the Big Rip?
If the Big Rip is real, then not only is the Universe expanding (which happens irrespective of dark energy), and not only will distant objects appear to accelerate away from us at increasingly faster and faster rates as time goes on (which happens because of dark energy), but objects which are bound together through …
Will the universe rip itself apart?
If dark energy remains unchanging, space will expand indefinitely while increasingly isolated stars will slowly fade away and go cold, a phenomenon referred to as Heat Death. And if dark energy keeps accelerating the expansion of the universe, space itself will eventually be torn apart in the Big Rip.
Can black holes get destroyed?
Eventually, in theory, black holes will evaporate through Hawking radiation. But it would take much longer than the entire age of the universe for most black holes we know about to significantly evaporate.
How long until big rip happens?
The team found that the earliest a big rip can occur is at 1.2 times the current age of the universe, which works out to be around 2.8 billion years from now. “We’re safe,” says Sáez-Gómez.
Are black holes safe from the Big Rip?
However, even if it does, black holes are probably safe… as they are causally disconnected from the rest of the universe, so even as the rest of the universe expands and the phantom energy density increases beyond limit, it does not The so-called Big Rip is not a standard prediction of physical cosmology.
What will happen to the universe after the Big Rip?
The big rip is a theory. What is more likely to happen, because dark energy is making itself known now, is the universe will slowly cool down and in trillions of years, after all other matter has been absorbed or relegated to elementary particles, black holes will slowly evaporate. The is called the black hole epoch.
Is it possible to tear apart a black hole?
However, there is no known effect that can tear apart a black hole. If any black holes have’t evaporated with a last puff of Hawking Radiation when this hypothetical big rip might come, we will have a variation on the immovable object and the irresistible force.
What is the matter of black holes?
Black holes are not matter in the usual sense of the word. They are regions of compressed space with some stuff inside*. The big rip is about space expanding so quickly that even atoms come apart.