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At the end of the universe, will the remaining stars will be the ones that were traveling the fastest?


Do you mean at the time end, or at the distance end?

These stars are orbiting black holes, so they aren't traveling linearly to the distance end of the universe.

As for the time end of the universe, nobody knows for sure how the universe will come to an end. But if these objects are very hot due to their speed, then perhaps they will live a bit longer than others, unless they explode before then :)


>Do you mean at the time end, or at the distance end?

Time. After entropy has had it's way, might there be some age-deferred stars zooming around?


I think they're just speeding towards the end of time faster than the rest of us.


Aside: Here is a good 'timeline' of a few proposed futures for our universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Personally, this is one of my favorite Wikipedia articles. People talk about having a larger perspective, but this page outlines the extreme limits to that.


No, the ones formed the last and the smallest red dwarfs.




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