Theoretical analysis reveals primordial black holes as pristine uncollapsed vacuum defects in the early universe, suggesting massive black hole seeds existed prior to cosmic gas formation.
JWST has found a ~10^5 solar-mass black hole accreting inside a dense gas envelope 660 million years after the Big Bang, and the population it belongs to - the little red dots - is abundant. In the Selection-Stitch Model the vacuum is a crystallized lattice, matter is its incomplete crystallization at the Planck scale, and a black hole is a region without lattice. The published definition reaches that state by collapse, and, for primordial holes, conjectures a second origin: relic pockets of the crystallization transition, never assembled, proposed for holes light enough to have evaporated since. This note takes that conjecture above the survival cutoff. A region the crystallization never reached is a black hole from the start, with no collapse and no history. If crystallization was imperfect at any scale, its macroscopic imperfections are primordial black holes: the particle spectrum and the primordial population are one defect spectrum, divided by the published cutoff at 10^16.5 g. Four consequences follow without a formation model: seeds exist before gas; they are born naked and cocooned later; no growth time is required; and the mass function is not predicted but measured - the little-red-dot census counts the Big Bang's large-scale defects. The unknown dynamics of why regions were missed becomes an observable: missed regions are uncorrelated with primordial density, wall breaches sit at its peaks, and the clustering of little red dots decides between them. The note is falsifiable only in the weak direction.
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