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tl:dr: possibly, but if so, it would be the size of the entire universe and, as a result, impossible for us to determine one way to the other.
This topic comes up from time to time. If you’re interested, check this article by a cosmologist. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/04/28/the-universe-is-not-a-black-hole/
Thanks for the interesting link. Can’t argue with Sean Carroll. Except of course for the people who do argue with Sean Carroll. Ha ha. But that’s way above my pay grade. But some do argue, even in the comments on that linked blog post. Sean’s responses there are of course also excellent and worth reading.
I didn’t find any ArXiv links in the page, but the main point is this: given how flat the Universe is, if it is inside a black hole, it needs to be really large in order to keep the curvature inside so flat.
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