COSMIC AUTOPHAGY V4.4: A UNIFIED MODEL OF BLACK HOLE PROCESSING, COSMOLOGICAL COUPLING, AND THE NATURE OF DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY

The standard concordance cosmological model (ΛCDM) faces three simultaneous observational crises: the perpetual absence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) and QCD axions in ultra-sensitive direct-detection underground experiments, the severe 5.1σ Hubble tension (H₀) between early-universe sound horizon calibration and local distance ladders, and the emergence of overmassive supermassive black holes (SMBHs with M > 10⁹ M☉) at redshifts z > 6 observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Cosmic Autophagy v4.4 resolves all three discrepancies within a unified, particle-free gravitational framework based on General Relativity and horizon thermodynamics. Cold Dark Matter (ΩDM ≈ 0.264) is 100% accounted for by a monochromatic population of asteroid-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs, Mc ≈ 10⁻¹² M☉) formed during the QCD crossover transition (t ~ 10⁻⁵ s). Cosmological mass-vacuum coupling M(a) ∝ ak with adiabatic index k = 3 inside non-singular regular de Sitter cores generates an effective negative pressure state (w = -1), converting ingested baryonic matter into dynamic dark energy. The apparent four-order-of-magnitude density gap between local black holes and cosmic dark energy is analytically closed by integrating the comoving volumetric expansion factor (Famplification ≈ 10⁴) over the cosmic star formation history. We present an exhaustive 14-axis analytical defense matrix proving general covariant conservation ∇μTμν = 0, full compliance with the Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics (GSLT), immunity to gravitational wave diffraction, and the natural reconciliation of local expansion to H₀ = 71.24 ± 0.45 km/s/Mpc.