Well, it didn't exactly explode, it expanded. <br /><br />The dynamics between something exploding, and something expanding, are vastly different. I personally don't believe that the characteristics of black holes have much to do with the answers to the origin of the universe (how it expanded, and why). <br /><br />The thing to remember is that the big bang was not an expansion <i>into</i> pre-existing space, but rather it was the expansion of space itself. Misconceptions of the big bang are what lead people to believing false facts about the big bang theory. If you visualize that the big bang was an explosion of matter into infinitely empty space, then you would have a picture in your mind that empty space is infinite, but the material universe (stars, planets, galaxies, etc.) is finite. However, this is not at all what the big bang theory states. The big bang theory states that all of space is expanding into itself. There is no edge, there is no outside, these is no boundry. You could hop in your spaceship and travel forever and ever and EVER and never reach the end of the universe!<br /><br />So, I don't entirely see how the dynamics of black hole singularities, can be directly related to the expansion of the big bang's singularity. Black holes exist within space around them, space that has already existed before they were here. Whereas the big bang was the very expansion of space itself, before the big bang, there was no space. Not to say that there was nothing, there just wasn't any space. I am a firm believer that anything could have happened before the big bang, because no one knows, so any theories we come up with, could be perfectly plausible. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>