[seqfan] Silly thought

[David Wilson]

I had a probably silly idea...

What if the universe were slightly elliptical, and near our opposite 
pole were a massive black hole. From our standpoint, its gravitational 
effects on increasingly distant objects would appear as an expanding 
universe, its event horizon as "the edge of the universe", and the dying 
screams of consumed galaxies as background radiation.

But seriously, can the edge of the universe be likened in any way to the 
event horizon of a black hole?