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Comment so how long is it going to take? (Score 2) 124

From the summary:

around 10^78 years, rather than 10^1100

and later:

The researchers calculated that the end of the universe is about 1078 years away, if only Hawking-like radiation is taken into account. This is the time it takes for white dwarf stars, the most persistent celestial bodies, to decay via Hawking-like radiation. Previous studies, which did not take this effect into account, put the lifetime of white dwarfs at 101100 years.

The linked article states 10^68...

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