Dark energy can escape black holes.

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Dark energy can theoretically escape black holes, but this concept is poorly defined in discussions. It is clarified that dark energy is not immune to accretion by black holes, although this process occurs at a minimal rate. Consequently, the majority of a black hole's mass is derived from other forms of energy rather than dark energy. Special cases may exist where dark energy behaves differently, but these are exceptions rather than the rule. Overall, the interaction between dark energy and black holes remains a complex topic in astrophysics.
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http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=760

Yep, it's an exception to the rule that "nothing can escape a black hole".
 
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Hmm, that's a pretty badly worded article I'm afraid. For starters it doesn't define what it means by 'escaping from a black hole', but for any meaningful definition, dark energy is not immune to being accreated onto black holes. For a random article discussing this see http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0502118" but that's just the first one I found doing a simple search. In general dark energy will be accreated onto black holes, except for some special cases.

The rate of accreation is quite small though, so most of the mass of black holes would have come from other forms of energy rather than dark energy.
 
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