Abstract

We show that dark matter with certain minimal properties can convert the majority of baryons in galaxies to black holes over hundred trillion year timescales. We argue that this has implications for cosmologies which propose that new universes are created in black hole interiors. We focus on the paradigm of cosmological natural selection, which connects black hole production to a universe’s likelihood for existing. Further, we propose that the Universe’s timescale for entropy production could be dynamically linked to black hole production in a naturally selected universe. Our Universe would fit this scenario for models of particle dark matter that convert helium white dwarfs to black holes in around a hundred trillion years, where the dominant source of entropy in our Universe is the helium white dwarfs’ stellar progenitors, which cease forming and burning also in around a hundred trillion years. Much of this dark matter could be discovered at ongoing experiments. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

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