I'm sitting here messing around with linux and the Mrs. has Cosmos on in the background..and it got me thinking about Black Holes and the role they play in the universe. Considering Baryon asymmetry, I'm starting to think it makes sense for Black Holes to be the closest that may exist to an actual "edge" of the universe. I'm thinking matter might pass into them and either achieve a deeper state of decay or begin some universal recycling process but in doing what they do, they may be dumping or converting energy in such a way as to account for the asymmetry, and the amount of asymmetry we see now may be a way to gauge the age of the universe. Have I gone full retard?
Any astrophysicists out there?
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_asymmetry