as in emptiness
empty space
discovered that there was a black hole in the library's collection with regard to her topic
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Recent Examples of black hole
Get ready to fall into a black hole.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
The remainder are quasars, dominated by actively feeding supermassive black holes.
—Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
This further strengthens the magnetic field, which can become so powerful (coupled with a bizarre effect called frame dragging in which the black hole’s spin itself drags the fabric of spacetime around it) that material is expelled from the disk and blasted away in a pair of beams called jets.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
Instead, that material falls into a rotating disk around the black hole.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
The remainder are quasars, dominated by actively feeding supermassive black holes.
—Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
This further strengthens the magnetic field, which can become so powerful (coupled with a bizarre effect called frame dragging in which the black hole’s spin itself drags the fabric of spacetime around it) that material is expelled from the disk and blasted away in a pair of beams called jets.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
Instead, that material falls into a rotating disk around the black hole.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for black hole
Recent Examples of Synonyms for black hole
Noun
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By upholding his virtue and revealing the emptiness of evil, Ignatius Maloyan earned sainthood, joining the enduring Communion of witnesses.—
Jenni Fink,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Critics see gleaming towers rising from desert sand and detect not ambition but emptiness — a city with an unlimited line of credit, but without a soul.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For the market, the coaching carousel will keep roiling until vacancies are filled, and big names like Riley will continue to get floated around.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Rochester Police Department in New York has 100 vacancies, according to Spectrum News 1.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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But Scherzinger is operating out of a great tradition with this stuff, and there aren’t a lot of others of her generation filling the void, at least with her profile coming from the pop side and the chops to work it on the theater side.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
2 Nov. 2025
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Sarr has partly filled the void, with Munoz and Mitchell most consistently providing for Mateta.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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The department placed its last order of blanks (the flat metal disks used to make the coins) in May.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the movie, Lanthimos doles out pieces of backstory in short, dreamlike sequences that unfurl in black and white, artfully filling in the blanks of Teddy’s particular interest in Michelle.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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