V82: Accelerated Expansion and Black Holes as Information-Processing Necessities — A Closed-System Principle with Structural Isomorphism to Biological Metabolism

We present a unified framework in which cosmic accelerated expansion and black hole formation emerge as complementary responses of a dynamic, closed universe that must preserve ever-growing records without an external disposal channel. Living systems maintain internal order by exporting high-entropy waste to an external environment; the universe, by definition, has no "outside" into which accumulated records can be discarded. Consequently, record preservation in a closed system forces two internal processing strategies: (i) capacity expansion, which dilutes record density via accelerated expansion of the background (manifesting phenomenologically as dark energy), and (ii) node compression, which isolates irreducible records behind causal/operational boundaries (manifesting as black holes). This correspondence is not metaphorical but structural, arising from identical thermodynamic and informational constraints. We outline observational contact points—including the ubiquity of central black holes, the M–σ relation, and the existence of early supermassive black holes—as natural outcomes of local processing saturation. The key difference between the universe and living systems is not structure, but the presence of a disposal channel. What is traditionally labeled "quantum gravity" may not require a new force or quantization scheme, but rather recognition of a scale-independent update constraint already present in both quantum mechanics and general relativity.