If all the mass in the universe were located densely enough in one area, how big a black hole would it make?
Around the Big Bang, when all the mass in the universe was all close together, would it make sense to talk about it making a black hole? Or would the conditions at that time, including the extremely high energies, the expansion of space itself from a (near?) singularity, and the fact that the forces did not exist as we now know them make that not an issue? If there was a universal black hole around the time of the Big Bang, is it at all relevant to the life of the universe since then?