{"id":236636,"date":"2026-05-06T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/what-if-black-holes-are-dark-energy"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:23:14","slug":"what-if-black-holes-are-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/what-if-black-holes-are-dark-energy","title":{"rendered":"What If Black Holes ARE Dark Energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EGe5qvIzjTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE\">http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/> \/ pbsspacetime.<\/p>\n<p>We tend to imagine there are connectings between things that we don\u2019t understand. Quantum mechanics and consciousness, aliens and pyramids, black holes and dark matter, dark matter and dark energy, dark energy and black holes. Usually there\u2019s no real relationship whatsoever, but this last pair\u2014black holes and dark energy being the same thing\u2014has received some recent hype in the press. Let\u2019s see if it might actually be true.<\/p>\n<p>Episodes referenced companion playlist: \u2022 what if black hole ARE dark energy? | comp\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! \/ pbsspacetime. We tend to imagine there are connectings between things that we don\u2019t understand. Quantum mechanics and consciousness, aliens and pyramids, black holes and dark matter, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}