Stars will cease forming, and eventually all will wink out; the black holes will evaporate, and, in an ever thinner soup of subatomic particles, individual positrons and electrons will seek to annihilate each other, forming inwardly spiralling mutual orbits over distances many times greater than the span of the present observable universe.
After a repeat of this process, VMs will cease forming new sub-regions for an exponentially increasing length of time in order to prevent an infinite cycle occurring.
It's why the earliest, most sustained habitable planets might not be in a galaxy like ours, but rather in a red-and-dead galaxy that ceased forming stars billions of years ago.
Stars between one and three million years old possess discs rich in gas, whereas discs around stars more than 10 million years old have little to no gas, suggesting that gas giant planets within them have ceased forming.
A study earlier this year in Nature Climate Change looked at ice shelves around Antarctica to determine how much area they could lose without ceasing to form their crucial function of buttressing glaciers and holding them back, and found that Larsen C actually has a lot of "passive" ice that it can lose without major consequences.
I told myself it would take time for him to get out of that just-spunked stupor that had him ceasing all forms of contact with me for days on end while he pursued barked up the wrong trees, swaddled in self denial.
The number of siliques formed per week was counted from each plant until the plants cease to form more siliques.
Others, by contrast, are quiescent, having long ago ceased to form new stars.
Studies showed that when sufficient numbers of ice particles were present in clouds to eliminate the hazardous supercooled water conditions, ice ceased to form on airplane bodies.
As Charles Murray puts it in his book "Coming Apart," "When families become dysfunctional, or cease to form altogether, growing numbers of children suffer in ways that have little to do with lack of money".
