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The Big Rip and Black Hole Event Horizon
The big rip is probably probably not going to happen. It only happens if dark energy is something more exotic than most physicists think it is. If the strength of dark energy increases over time, then eventually the accelerating expansion of the universe can affect smaller and smaller regions,. Eventually subatomic scales tearing everything apart.