Early inflation based on an aboriginal black hole

Abstract

It has been recently proposed that the interior of a black hole is vacuum energy, and this offers a possible explanation for the dark energy of the current observable universe. In this article we explore the idea that black holes are a source of vacuum energy in the early universe as well, and could possibly explain early inflation. Our scenario pre-supposes a single aboriginal black hole as the source of vacuum energy that drives inflation and eventually evaporates due to Hawking radiation. In such a model we can estimate $t_i$ and $t_f$ which are the times when inflation began and ended respectively. Our simplified model leads to $t_i\approx 10^{-45}$ sec, $t_f\approx 10^{-43}$ sec and the number of e-foldings during inflation to be about $70$.

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