In a new study, scientists began pondering a pretty wild question: What if black holes can convert dead star matter into dark energy, the mystery force driving the acceleration of the expansion of the universe? If so, then it just might explain a multitude of "hiccups" in our models of the universe.
This new theory proposes that black holes could actually be tiny "bubbles" of dark energy. This involves the conversion of matter into dark energy because black holes are born when massive stars collapse after exhausting their fuel for nuclear fusion. Thus, if this "cosmologically coupled black hole (CCBH)" hypothesis is correct, the transformation of a massive stellar core to a black hole represents the conversion of stellar matter to dark energy.
