India, July 25 -- Amid multiple theories about the future of our universe, new data have surprised scientists, suggesting that the universe might stop expanding and ultimately collapse sooner than expected. During the past year, the study of various galaxies by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), as well as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), has unveiled data that made cosmologists suggest that the universe might collapse in a "Big Crunch," Space.com reported.

DES and DESI data reveal that the phenomenon, named dark energy, the force which accelerates the expansion of the universe, could be changing with time. This observation could result in a paradigm shift, meaning that the cosmological constant - the model of dark energy - co...