Black holes, the enigmatic end-products of stellar collapse and pivotal cosmological objects, have long intrigued theoretical physicists through their intricate interplay with quantum fields. A ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. Sure, an asteroid could destroy a city or wipe out life on Earth. A supernova ...

Of all the possible ends of the universe, vacuum decay would be the most thorough. The universe is going to end. But of all the possible ends of the universe vacuum decay would have to be the most ...

Phase transitions are everywhere, ranging from water boiling to snowflakes melting, and from magnetic transitions in solids to cosmological phase transitions in the early universe. Particularly ...

Eventually, the vacuum of space will decay, and things will fall apart—in a zillion years. Our universe is glued together by quantum fields, like the Higgs, which set much of our physics. Revising ...

From the Big Crunch to the heat death of the universe, it seems that science is always finding new ways the cosmos might come to an end. But physicists have now revealed the most devastating doomsday ...

Scientists in Europe have successfully simulated a process known as false vacuum decay, a hypothetical event that could one day spell the end of the universe. The experiment, carried out using ...

Physicists around the world are hoping to witness a particularly spectacular characteristic in a few years' time: the spontaneous decay of the vacuum into pairs of particles of matter and antimatter ...

(via PBS Space Time) The universe is going to end. But of all the possible ends of the universe vacuum decay would have to be the most thorough - because it could totally rewrite the laws of physics.