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It is my understanding that black holes create new stars. It's also my understanding that small mass will eventually be drawn towards bigger mass. Does this mean the eventual "heat death of the universe" won't actually happen as stray light/heat/RF/particles/whatever will always get drawn in back towards a mass like a blackhole and reformed?

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> small mass will eventually be drawn towards bigger mass

Common misunderstanding. All mass has acceleration from gravity, but stuff like orbits can still happen due to existing velocity.

More importantly, even if objects were to be pulled together, there space expanding means they might still be futher apart, if the space between objects grows faster then they move togeather. So the heat death looks like it will happen anyways.

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