http://news.discovery.com/space/did-some-black-holes-survive-the-big-bang-110504.html
But here's the rub, if everything from the previous universe collapsed to a point and then exploded as the Big Bang, wouldn't all information be destroyed? Surely all matter would have been blended together as pure energy and spat back out, producing a universe that bears no resemblance to its progenitor?
Perhaps not, say Carr and Coley; perhaps black holes spawned by the impossibly compact conditions of that dying universe survived the Big Bang and are dispersed throughout the current universe. What's more, the pair of researchers have put size limits on the mass of black holes that might survive the Big Crunch/Big Bang party.