black hole
noun
1
: a celestial object that has a gravitational field so strong that light cannot escape it and that is believed to be created especially in the collapse of a very massive star
2
: something resembling a black hole: such as
a
: something that consumes a resource continually
a financial black hole
b
: an empty space : void
… the archives of the past few years are a black hole.—
David Herman
David Herman
c
: a dark and seemingly inescapable state or situation
the black hole of depression
Examples of black hole in a Sentence
discovered that there was a black hole in the library's collection with regard to her topic
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Just lately, on July 14, LIGO scientists announced the discovery of the most massive merger of two black holes ever seen.
—Lieke Van Son, Scientific American, 24 July 2025
In high school, thinking about black holes kept Medeiros up at night.
—Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
Construction began in 1994 and took more than 20 years, including a four-year shutdown to improve the detectors, before LIGO detected its first gravitational wave in 2015: a ripple in the space-time fabric coming from the faraway collision of a pair of black holes.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2025
Today, high-tech cameras attached to powerful telescopes can show us individual planets orbiting distant stars, stars falling into black holes in distant galaxies, and galaxies coalescing in the distant, early universe.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
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Lieke Van Son, Scientific American, 24 July 2025
In high school, thinking about black holes kept Medeiros up at night.
—Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
Construction began in 1994 and took more than 20 years, including a four-year shutdown to improve the detectors, before LIGO detected its first gravitational wave in 2015: a ripple in the space-time fabric coming from the faraway collision of a pair of black holes.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2025
Today, high-tech cameras attached to powerful telescopes can show us individual planets orbiting distant stars, stars falling into black holes in distant galaxies, and galaxies coalescing in the distant, early universe.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
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“Black hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black%20hole. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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