white hole

noun

: a hypothetical extremely dense celestial object that radiates enormous amounts of energy and matter compare black hole sense 1

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Maybe that’s the only kind of white hole our universe allows: the one that spawned it. —

Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2019 At that point, Rovelli and Haggard propose, the star will bounce back and reverse, turning into a white hole instead: an outward gush of matter and energy. —

Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2014 The mathematics is largely similar for talking about a white hole’s emissions and the Big Bang’s creations. —

Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2019 Similar to how a black hole consumes everything in its path, a theoretical white hole would expel it. —

Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2022 Smart governments and businesses are constantly creating and destroying white holes and black holes. —

Rajesh Kasturirangan, Quartz India, 3 Oct. 2019 Michael, the archangel, and also the teacher who’d taught me about white holes, the opposite of black holes, where disappeared matter emerges into another dimension. —

Cyrus Grace Dunham, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019 See More

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