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Universe will die "much sooner than expected," new research says

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Dutch scientists say the universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought.

We still have 10 to the power of 78 years before it happens, but that is a major revision from the previous estimate of 1,100 years .

Scientists at Radboud University calculated the theoretical dissolution of the longest-lasting body, the white dwarf.

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