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Larger than the current life of the universe, not necessarily longer than the end of the universe, though that really depends on your model of how it'll all end
by tfgg 11y ago
Larger than the current life of the universe, not necessarily longer than the end of the universe, though that really depends on your model of how it'll all end. Some do involve black holes gradually boiling away to radiation being the last things being left.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoMaybe there would be an eternity of black holes boiling / protons decaying. I doubt that since something ought to lose stability in the long run.
- logfromblammo 11y agoIf spacetime continues to accelerate its expansion, a black hole at the future end of time might be like suddenly dropping the air pressure over a boiling pot of water--or maybe more like popping a blackhead pimple by stretching the skin on either side of it. I am not a theoretical physicist, though, so whenever I think too hard about how that would actually work, I give myself a headache and need a good lie-down in a very dark room.