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    Graduate Why is it considered the 'end of the universe' when the stars go dark?

    ooh more posts. marcus, I am moving on. you mentioned "The other thing is a second way it is wrong. I'll get to that later" and then swifty concluded your post. Interested to hear the other way it's wrong.
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    Graduate Why is it considered the 'end of the universe' when the stars go dark?

    JonDE, I can't argue with that logic. I hadn't considered that the amount of gravity wouldn't actually change. So, the ultimate future of dead galaxies is lone black holes surrounded by a ring of dead stars in stable orbit. The black hole eventually evaporates and I guess the dead stars need to...
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    Graduate Why is it considered the 'end of the universe' when the stars go dark?

    Marcus, Thanks for your response. So basically, instead of naturally tying together accepted theories, I've tied them with an additional assumption, that super massive black holes will eventually swallow up the stars orbitting them? Is that right? What I don't understand is why that is an...
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    Graduate Why is it considered the 'end of the universe' when the stars go dark?

    Why is it considered the 'end of the universe' when the stars go dark?? As I understand it, there were two main theories accepted regarding the expansion of the universe after the big bang. One of them assumed that the expansion would start to contract, the other that it would continue to...