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Description
The memory burden effect describes how an object's stored information resists its own decay. This mechanism is especially pronounced in saturons - systems that saturate unitarity bounds on entropy - with black holes providing the prime example. I will show how memory burden can halt Hawking evaporation and dynamically stabilize black holes against complete decay. Crucially, this phenomenon is not exclusive to gravity: it arises naturally in generic quantum many-body systems and renormalizable field theories, underscoring its broader theoretical relevance. I will then discuss the phenomenological consequences, focusing on potential signatures in the early Universe and today. In particular, memory-stabilized black holes can produce distinctive high-energy cosmic-ray signals and leave characteristic imprints on the CMB, offering correlated cosmological and astrophysical probes of this peculiar form of dark matter.