black hole

noun

: 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

: something resembling a black hole: such as

: something that consumes a resource continually

a financial black hole

: an empty space : void

… the archives of the past few years are a black hole.—

David Herman

: 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

Recent Examples on the Web Enlarge / The Milky Way's central black hole is in a very crowded neighborhood. —

Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 July 2024 World premiering at this year’s SXSW film festival, the film directed by Bernardo Britto (Jacqueline Argentine) follows Zoya Lowe (Parker), a quantum physicist who finds herself in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 2 July 2024 Sleeping celestial giants Supermassive black holes are classified as having masses more than 100,000 times that of our sun. —

Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 June 2024 Astronomical evidence has shown that black holes do have spin, though researchers don’t know what the typical spin value is for an astrophysical black hole. —

Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for black hole

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