What If Black Holes FUEL Dark Energy?
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What If Black Holes FUEL Dark Energy?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 24, 202620 min
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  • Science

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People love to imagine that things that they don't understand are somehow connected to each other. For example, quantum mechanics and consciousness, or aliens and pyramids, or black holes and dark matter, or dark matter and dark energy, or dark energy and black holes.

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Usually there's no real relationship whatsoever, but that last pair, black holes and dark energy, has recently received some hype in the press as possibly being the same thing. Let's see if this might actually be true.

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Here's the idea in a nutshell. Black holes are, apparently, made of dark energy. As the universe expands, black holes in that expanding space gain mass proportional to the increasing volume of the universe, which results in two things.

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