I’m currently working on research funded by the NASA Space Grant that looks at predicting the Local Black Hole Mass Function From Stellar Collapse of Cosmic History, with the goal of comparing the classical black hole model with that of GEODEs, which are theoretical Generic Objects of Dark Energy. 

GEODEs differ from black holes in that they would be made up of dark energy rather than our well understood, traditional matter. This makes them an interesting theory because should they be proven, they could account for all of the dark energy causing the acceleration of the expansion of the universe.