Black Holes and Higgs Dark Energy

TL;DR

This paper proposes a mechanism where dark energy is trapped inside black holes during their formation via the Higgs field, potentially explaining dark energy's evolution and abundance in the universe.

Contribution

It introduces a model linking Higgs field dynamics during stellar collapse to dark energy confinement within black holes, offering a novel explanation for dark energy's nature.

Findings

Dark energy and matter densities in black holes are in a 2:1 ratio at collapse start.

The collapse process follows a cycloid scale factor with a 57 microsecond duration.

Growing black holes could account for the universe's dark energy evolution.

Abstract

Black holes, dark energy, and the Higgs field are all currently established, exciting, and mysterious, each in its own way. Cosmological data show that dark energy may evolve with time. The electroweak phase transition during stellar collapse can provide a mechanism via the Higgs field for dark energy to be trapped inside black holes at the time of their formation. Using the Oppenheimer-Snyder model of collapse, we calculate the total matter and dark energy densities in a black hole, to be in the ratio of 2 to 1 at the start of collapse. The solution for the scale factor a(t) is a cycloid with a collapse time of 57 \mu s. If black holes are cosmologically coupled and grow in mass as the universe expands, they can account for the evolution and quantity of the dark energy of the universe.