When it comes to the universe's ultimate fate, a rebuttal has just received a rebuttal. Astronomers have pushed back against a challenge to the mainstream view—which holds that the cosmos is accelerating toward a Big Freeze. According to io9, the latest analysis confirms it: the universe is still heading toward cold, endless expansion, not the collapse some theorists recently proposed.

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