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
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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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The discovery represents a deepening of our understanding of the physics at play both around supermassive black holes and at the heart of the Milky Way.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 June 2026
Gorski and Murchikova then used a calibration method to remove interference from the black hole's radio signals, resulting in an image 100 times deeper and 80 times sharper than past maps.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 June 2026
At the heart of our home galaxy lurks a gigantic black hole that’s more than a trillion times heavier than Earth, with all that mass stuffed into a region that is about 2,000 times wider than our planet.
—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
The right organizers transform chaotic spaces into functional ones — drawer dividers that prevent junk drawers from becoming black holes, cabinet organizers that maximize vertical space and hanging storage that uses doors instead of precious floor space.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 June 2026
Gorski and Murchikova then used a calibration method to remove interference from the black hole's radio signals, resulting in an image 100 times deeper and 80 times sharper than past maps.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 June 2026
At the heart of our home galaxy lurks a gigantic black hole that’s more than a trillion times heavier than Earth, with all that mass stuffed into a region that is about 2,000 times wider than our planet.
—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
The right organizers transform chaotic spaces into functional ones — drawer dividers that prevent junk drawers from becoming black holes, cabinet organizers that maximize vertical space and hanging storage that uses doors instead of precious floor space.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
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“Black hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black%20hole. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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