1. KNN for me 1st one is simple. spirits ghosts don't exist within 3 dimensions. The black hole leads to a 4th dimension or some extra-dimensional space. The spirits ghosts exist in anything up to 13 dimensions. They can freely move to an extent between the different dimensions. One day if we ever meet, I will explain how or maybe can pm. How many dimensions up and where I do not know. This is also what I have personally experienced. KNN
2. KNN At first I think no farking idea. But what is known is that THIS universe DID magically spring up out of nowhere in the beginning. It was not already there. How, who, what or why no one knows because the timescale is so huge by our reckoning and nobody got solid idea what beginning looks like. Universe is actually spreading itself further and further out as we speak with no return until it goes into "heat death". So it's not a cycle. We started from some small point and became this big universe. So it is some magical creation, but nobody knows if anybody or anything created it or it's just a fluctuation of nature. KNN.
My personal take on it is that all these black holes sucking everything up will ultimately become the nexus of new universe. Maybe not now, but in billions of years. All that mass being sucked in go where? I think like ignition like that. Once enough mass sucked in, the thing will spontaneously "ignite" and become it's own universe. Funny thing too. Once inside black hole, time stops...