Singularity is a state of the Universe characterized by infinite curvature, energy, and gravitational field intensity. At the point of about 30 – 60 million years before singularity, everything turns into plasma, and then the plasma itself also disappears. In one of his previous works, Dr. Odintsov et al. pondered different scenarios of the death of the Universe. The theory included four types of mathematical models of singularities and became quite popular among cosmologists. Some catastrophic scenarios may include the Big Rip during which matter of the Universe and the spacetime are progressively torn apart through the expansion. Odintsov and Oikonomou devoted one of their previous works to demonstrating how the Big Rip models are linked with the accelerating expansion of the Universe. Dark energy, which is theorized to be the force of expansion, is still a major mystery for science. Meanwhile, with the current dynamics of expansion, the Universe may be on the brink of destruction in 30 to 40 billion years from now. A paper by Sergey Odintsov (Kazan Federal University) and Vasilis Oikonomou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) appeared in Physical Review D. Reference: “Dynamical systems perspective of cosmological finite-time singularities in f(R) gravity and interacting multifluid cosmology” by S. D. Odintsov and V. K. Oikonomou, 6 July 2018, Physical Review D.DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.024013
