The Universe is slowly dying by Vern Blossfeld

Summary: A new astronomical study researched by a team of some 100 scientists used data from telescopes on land and in space to study energy coming from over 200,000 galaxies in the observable universe. Based on these observations, they have found that the cosmos is giving off only half as much energy as it was 2 billion years ago. The energy is fading from all wavelengths the team has checked, from ultraviolet to infrared. Our universe is 13.8 billion years, and the average cutoff date according to a theory proposed and accepted by many physicists, is 5 billion years. But death doesn't mean the universe will go away; just that all the light in it will go out. " "It will just grow old forever, slowly converting less and less mass into energy as billions of years pass by until eventually, it will become a cold, dark and desolate place, where all of the lights go out," said astronomer Luke Davies. "
Analysis: It's not really a concern for us right now, because it's going to take trillions of years if the universe does eventually go dark, but I thought the theories were interesting. A binary black hole has been found in the quasar at the center of the Markarian 231 galaxy, and according to astronomers the two black holes are "furiously whirling around each other" (that doesn't sound good). It's interesting how much we don't know about black holes and how many variations there are out there in space. The fact that our lives here are really small and fleeting compared to whats in space makes the subject kind of eerie at times but it's still really interesting.
Here's the binary black hole

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/10/us/universe-dying/index.html