Small Red Dots and the DUT Framework: Simulating Hidden Black Hole Nuclei in a Collapsing Cosmological Geometry

Abstract Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a new population of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs), known as Small Red Dots (SRDs), which challenge the conventional CDM timeline for supermassive black hole (SMBH) formation. Here we demonstrate that these SRDs are predicted within the Dead Universe Theory (DUT), where the observable universe is the entropic remnant of a prior collapsed structure, embedded within the gravitational core of a non-singular black hole. Using the DUT Quantum Simulator (v4.0), we replicate the spectral, structural, and dynamical properties of SRDs without invoking dark matter, inflation, or super-Eddington accretion. Our results offer a new pathway for interpreting primordial black hole signatures as gravitational fossils of a thermodynamic retraction phase, providing strong empirical validation of DUT over ΛCDM.