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End of universe `closer than previously thought`

Last Updated: Friday, December 13, 2013, 10:36

Physicists have long predicted that the universe may one day collapse, and that everything in it will be compressed to a small hard ball, but now researchers have confirmed these predictions, claiming that the risk of a collapse is even greater than previously thought.

Einstein`s theory for expansion of the universe put to test

Last Updated: Thursday, January 10, 2013, 15:26

A new research found that a popular alternative to Albert Einstein`s theory for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe does not fit newly obtained data on a fundamental constant, the proton to electron mass ratio.

Studies of universe`s expansion win physics Nobel

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 16:48

Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.