Suppose in the future a form of life evolves that's as big as stars. They move throughout their galaxy combining matter into a condensed area and then proceed to travel to every observable galaxy to add it to their big ball of matter. I guess it'll be a black hole, but like a gigahypermassive black hole.

Could they eventually make it so massive that it overcomes the cosmological constant and attracts the expanding universe back towards it?

>>16703192 (OP)
>Could they eventually make it so massive that it overcomes the cosmological constant and attracts the expanding universe back towards it?
Nah. At best it can hold all the matter it has already gathered, but everything else is still gonna continue to expand away faster than light and at exponentially increasing speeds.

>>16703194
I guess my real question was, would condensing a lot of matter like several galaxies worth, make a powerful enough gravitational attractor

>>16703223
Nope. Still wouldn't be enough to overcome the expansion. The big rip/freeze is inevitable.

>>16704040
... i forgot to add dark energy’s density is constant per unit volume, while regular matter’s density dilutes as space expands. The blackhole that's formed wont affect things beyond its causal horizon because they're receding faster than light because of dark energy.

That would be cool if that existed, but if it did how would we recognize that its alive? A life form that big would be animated by gravitational forces instead of the electromagnetic ones which animate chemical life, and it would move unfathomably slowly. It would just look like stars and shit

>>16704055
I saw some video they postulated life form that is made of exotic matter, maybe not even matter but other particles, and could live in stars or something. Definitely wouldn't recognize that.