Earth falls into the Sun in 7.59 billion years, and it gets worse from there

NASA Illustration of evidence that the direct collapse of a gas cloud produced supermassive black holes in the early Universe.

Want to feel cosmically insignificant? Wikipedia’s “Timeline of the far future” catalogs scientific predictions stretching from the year 3001 to incomprehensibly distant timescales — 10^106 years and beyond.

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