Black Holes on Black Holes

As we look far back in space and also in effect back in time we formulate concepts about the nature of the universe based on our observations. This particular article is part of a series of opinions about such observations and specifically references the concept of a "singularity" - one point in space/time when all matter in the universe was located at one distinct point.

At present when we look into space we do see some "double stars" and we indirectly see evidence of some super-massive black holes. If two stars were extremely close together we might at first conclude that they were in fact one super-massive singular star. If there were two or three (or 100's) of black holes very close to each other we might conclude that they were one super-massive black hole.

When you go to the grocery store and you buy a jar of green olives, those olives were stuffed into the jar and although the jars are all the same size, each jar is likely to contain small variations in the number of olives in the jar and variations in the size of each olive. The glass container for this example acts like gravity - holding the olives in one location. We can even have an olive occasionally that looks a bit like a double olive.

Imagine now, that billions of black holes were all located virtually on top of each other forming a sphere of black holes creating a universal size super massive black hole, not actually one singularity, but from an outside observer looking at this location the observation would in effect seem to be a singularity.

When such a massive group of black holes explodes in a "Big Bang", it would cast off billions of black holes that would then form their own galaxies. This would explain our observation that all galaxies appear to have a black hole at their center. The current theory of the big bang would instead say that all the black holes now at the center of galaxies were essentially formed "after" the big bang.

A singularity of just one black hole forming the universe would not be much different visibly or mathematically from billions of black holes located in just about one point in space acting in large part as if they were all just one point in space, but the implications greatly changes the formation process of the universe.

In such a universe, billions of black holes would have been located so close together that the gravitational field would have a less specific pinpoint location. This theory allows for the universe to have been formed by a multiple "big bang" that could have happened in a very short space of time. Each big bang would have expanded the massive group of black holes and mixed all cosmic materials between these black holes. Imagine using a concrete mixing machine with black holes as your aggregate (the rocks in the concrete)! You might even consider forming a set number of such "big bangs" to have been between 4 to 12, before the actual final "big bang". Such a number might be related to the number of arms in spiral galaxies. As each smaller big bang happened, the arms on the spiral galaxies may have been produced. This also gives an indication of how rapid the smaller big bangs could have been in time between each occurrence.

This theory of black holes on top of black holes is quite a departure from the concept now accepted of their being one point where it all began - the singularity, but seems to explain some aspects of our present visible universe. In future articles other thoughts on the nature of everything will be considered.