There will come a point in time when the Universe decides to hang everything up. Everything will come to an end. And while that is very likely to take an extremely long time to happen, a group of scientists from the University of Southern Denmark believe that a collapse is more likely and it may happen sooner than we think.

Called "Phase transition", it is the process of the Universe imploding. The phenomenon could happen when the field that the Higgs particle changes value, making every particle in the Universe increase in mass millions of billions of times.

The weight from those particles will shove everything everywhere into a single point called singularity. By then, everything will stop. Disappear. It will be the opposite of the Big Bang.

Physicists have calculated and theorized how the phase transition will happen. And when. The team of scientists believe that their calculations and theory are the most precise to date and believe that it is already happening, starting on the outer fringes of the Universe.

The concept depends on what we know about the Higgs particle and if there are any other particles out there that we haven’t discovered yet.

For now, just know that the Universe imploding is a very possible thing.

[University of Southern Denmark]