The cosmos had grown faster than it should have, with physicists dubbing the factor responsible 'dark energy.' But there is a possibility that the Universe may start shrinking ‘remarkably’ fast, forcing the cosmos to collapse in a ‘big crunch,' according to a new study.
In 1998, two separate initiatives, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team, employed distant supernovae - star explosions that temporarily shine as brightly as 10 billion suns - to estimate th...