Hi all. I would like to first offer this disclaimer:
I'm not a physicist or scientist. I'm a computer technology professional and an enjoyer of all things involving theoretical physics.
With that said, I've been thinking about black holes and their "evaporation" over time and the resulting spew of energy after the black hole collapse.
My thoughts about this are as follows:
1. All of the energy ejected as the mass of the black hole decreases was originally captured/ensnared/eaten by the black hole.
2. As the black hole's mass increased, so did it's gravity, and thus it's distortion of space-time.
3. The dip caused by increased the gravity is a giant hole that is storing energy. As gravity increases, the dip lengthens and offers more room for energy storage.
4. Finally, when the gravity of the black hole can no longer contain the "dip"'s own force, it begins to erupt.
So this long train of thought brought me to the idea that if this were true or some mechanism similar to this was true, the big bang was nothing more than a super-super-super-massive black hole that died.
This could explain how all the matter in the universe could have come from a single point (which it didn't but you know what I mean). Brings back the old oscillating universe theory.
Anyway, if I'm way off base posting this here, my apologies. I just have no other outlet for my science geekery.
-- J