Wonder if they also explored the possibility that we are in a black hole and the universe structure is recursive. Maybe the background radiation is the part of the hawking radiation that falls inward. And we perceive it infinite but it’s the dilatated space between the hevent horizon and the naked singularity at the center. And the big bang was the supernova that left the black hole. Trippinng!
We are in a black hole. The event horizon of the entire universe is on the same order as the observable universe. We are inside the black hole of the universe.
In short, our universe looks more like a white hole than a black hole.