black hole

noun

Definition of black holenext
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 But not all their mass gets glommed together to form the final black hole boss. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026 Quasars – objects where matter is being ripped apart by black holes millions of times more massive than our Sun – seem to be likely candidates. — Yjan Gordon, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026 Its songs are littered with black holes, disasters, nuclear bombs; there are guttural screams and onslaughts of distorted guitar. — Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026 Many black holes may be unobservable, owing to their having no companions, and dark matter may be attuned to a fifth dimension. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for black hole
Recent Examples of Synonyms for black hole
  1. emptiness
  2. vacancy
  3. void
  4. blank
Noun
  • Carson’s account of desire helps explain why this creed leads to two kinds of emptiness.
    — Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Such stylish emptiness is daunting, and one doesn’t envy those who are now being encouraged to try it on for size.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of emptiness
Noun
  • Jeske, who heads the Quantum Sensing Group at Fraunhofer at the research institute, was the the first to come up with a theoretical model for a magnetic-field-sensitive laser system using diamond with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers a decade ago.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The White House’s press secretary vacancy won’t necessarily keep the briefing room closed.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of vacancy
Noun
  • For fertility entrepreneurs, though, this void left a business opportunity.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
  • But the seeming void contains a barely perceptible fog of hydrogen and other neutral atoms.
    — Perri Thaler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of void
Noun
  • However, Paparo left that prompt blank when searching for the individuals.
    — CBS Philadelphia, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Sherman, Maine — Behind the steering wheel of his silver pickup, Scott Bates fills in the blanks with numbers.
    — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of blank

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