Dark Matter, Black Holes, and the Rendering Budget: Anomalous Matter Systems in Pixel Theory

The render-on-demand framework of Pixel Theory classifies matter into three categories: electromagnetically committed classical matter (perpetually off the rendering list); photons in flight (the rendering process itself); and quantum systems in active superposition (the current rendering load). This paper examines two classes of matter that sit outside this standard classification.

Dark matter is proposed as electromagnetically uncommitted Planck cells — gravitationally rendered but invisible to the electromagnetic rendering process — providing a natural mechanism for gravitational effects without electromagnetic interaction. This explains galactic rotation curves, gravitational lensing anomalies, and large-scale structure without exotic new particles. A speculative connection to the antimatter (-t) branch of Paper 3 is identified: dark matter may be antimatter-branch cells gravitationally coupling into our matter branch, with gravity being branch-neutral while electromagnetism is branch-specific. A testable prediction follows: dark matter should show no quantum interference with ordinary matter.

Black holes are identified as causally imprisoned rendering environments. The event horizon is a one-way causal boundary beyond which rendering commitments cannot propagate outward. The singularity represents a Local Total First Rendering — a miniature Slow Big Bang in which local c approaches infinity and all interior cells are committed simultaneously — resolving the singularity as a maximally committed state rather than a geometric breakdown. Hawking radiation is reinterpreted as a temporal bifurcation event at the horizon, governed by the same mechanism that separated matter and antimatter at the cosmological singularity (companion Paper 3). The information paradox dissolves: information is committed inside the horizon, not destroyed, and leaks slowly to the exterior via the temporal boundary.

Two new predictions unique to Pixel Theory are identified: spacetime coarsening noise (a background of quantum fluctuations from the growth of the Planck length, at rate ~3×10^-18 per second, with a spectral character distinct from thermal noise or vacuum fluctuations); and CPT-symmetric correlations in Hawking radiation reflecting the temporal bifurcation structure.

The James Webb Space Telescope findings of unexpectedly mature galaxies at z = 10–16 are addressed as a natural consequence of the Slow Big Bang's extended structure formation timeline, with the prediction that further structure excess will be found as JWST observes at z > 16.

This is the seventh paper in the Pixel Theory series. Companion papers are published at:
Paper 1: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20491684
Paper 2: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20529501
Paper 3: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20530178
Paper 4: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20525925
Paper 5: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20531541