Previously on the Supermassive podcast.

We're kicking off the new year with the beginning of everything, the Big Bang.

That's right. And come December, we'll explore how the universe might end if it hasn't already happened by then.

Hello, welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me,

science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smith.

Yeah, this month it's all about the end of the universe.

Can science tell us what the end of days would actually look like and how would that all happen?

So just the fun stuff then.

Yeah, all of it.

Very cheery, very cheery topic.

So we'll be hearing from cosmologist Dr. Katie Mack,

who's the author of The End of Everything, Astrophysically speaking,

to explore the options for our demise.

Demise, is he?

Just such a stroke. Our demise.

I'm leaning into it. I'm leaning into it. Plus, astronomy journalist and author Dr. Stuart Clark explains the role that dark energy plays in all of this. And it's not the supermassive

podcast without Dr. Robert Massey, the deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society.

So, Robert.

So let's cut to the chase.

There's quite a few hypotheses behind the end of the universe, aren't there?

Well, yeah, and none of them particularly cheery, if we're going to get down this thing.

I mean, you know, everything in cosmology is big, at least at the moment, and getting bigger.

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