Since the late 1990’s, it has been a well-known fact that the Uiverse is slowly fading away. But with a new study just released, specifics reveal the great extent to how its death is actually occurring.

“The Universe has basically sat down on the soft, pulled up a blanket, and is about to nod off for an eternal doze,” suggested Simon Driver of ICRAR, lead author on the study, according to SlashGear.

There have been measurements of energy output of each of the 200,000 galaxies at 21 wavelengths, the broadest range possible. Researches have studied the findings that they now confirm that yes, the Universe is in fact fading out quicker than they thought.

This most recent research was part of the largest, multi-wavelength study ever created, the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) project. Scientists were trying to further understand the genesis of galaxies in the study, but it is proven as a information-go-to to conclude that first and foremost, the energy produced in their studied areas of the Universe is only half of what it was about two billion year prior.

“While most of the energy sloshing around in the Universe arose in the aftermath of the Big Bang,” said Driver, “additional energy is constantly being generated by stars as they fuse elements like hydrogen and helium together.”

“This new energy is either absorbed by dust as it travels through the host galaxy, or escapes into intergalactic space and travels until it hits something, such as another star, a planet, or, very occasionally, a telescope mirror.”

The study was conducted using the most powerful telescopes from around the world including some that are in the Earth’s orbit. And at this time, a new telescope is being built so that the team may utilize it to continue more studies. The telescope is the Square Kolometre Array and is being built in Australia and South Africa on a ten year plan for completion. When complete, it will be the world’s largest radio telescope.