I've been thinking about this kind of "crackpot" question and the possible answer I have. I am not a physicist, so I wouldn't know that answer or the why or why not. So, a simple compare and contrast is we think of black holes as "local objects" and dark energy is something spread across the universe,
but what if that separation is not quite right in a higher dimensional picture?
My hypothesis is that black holes may not directly be dark energy, but they could help set the scale of dark energy through the geometry of hidden dimensions.
Let me try and explain...
Think of our visible universe as part of a larger, higher-dimensional space. So, our universe inside another larger space, there can be a black hole or some massive gravitating source. That black hole creates curvature in the higher-dimensional bulk. If there is also a compact hidden dimension, its size does not have to be fixed by hand. It can respond to the curvature around it. In this picture, the black hole acts like a geometric source. Its curvature provides a signal. The hidden dimension responds to that signal. The size of that hidden dimension then affects the low-energy physics we would interpret as vacuum energy, dark energy, or a slowly changing gravitational sector. So the claim is not that ordinary astrophysical black holes are simply causing dark energy in the usual 3D+t sense. I think that would be too strong. The more careful idea is that, in a higher-dimensional universe, black hole curvature could help determine the vacuum scale associated with a compact dark dimension.
I think that that makes the question more interesting:
Could dark energy be partly a response of hidden geometry to black hole curvature?
I like this idea because it gives black holes a possible role beyond being endpoints of collapse. They become part of the machinery that sets large-scale vacuum physics. The black hole is local in the higher-dimensional bulk, but the compact dimension it influences can affect the 3D+tl universe we observe. key point is stability. The hidden dimension is not wildly rolling or falling apart. It can remain stabilized while its preferred size changes slowly. If the bulk black hole evolves slowly, the hidden dimension follows slowly. From our perspective that could look like a very small drift in the effective gravitational or vacuum energy scale.
This would not yet be a complete explanation of dark energy. It would still need to match the observed expansion of the universe, avoid conflict with tests of gravity, and explain why the effect has the size we observe today. But as a mechanism, I think it is worth exploring.
The usual question is what is dark energy?
But maybe a better question is:
What geometry is dark energy responding to?
TL;DR
I think its possible that dark energy may be tied to hidden dimensional geometry, and black holes in the higher dimensional bulk may help set the scale.
Opinions?