Synonyms of black hole

black hole

noun

as in emptiness

empty space

discovered that there was a black hole in the library's collection with regard to her topic

Synonyms & Similar Words

• emptiness
• vacancy
• void
• blank
• gap
• blankness
• vacuity
• vacuum
• cavity
• open
• nothingness
• air
• hole
• waste
• hollowness
• inane
• hollow
• barrenness
• bleakness
• desolateness
• bareness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fullness
• repleteness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of black hole

The observatory was named for fast-flying swift birds due to its ability to pivot rapidly to look at cosmic events and afterglows, enabling the study of comets, gravitational waves and black holes over long periods of time. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

The last stop in space took us to just outside the event horizon of Sagittarius A*, the unimaginably enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way. — Rob Pegoraro, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026

But recent computer simulations suggest that black holes might have something of a back door. — Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2026

The bursts last a few milliseconds to a few hundred seconds, and are thought to be caused by the merger of two neutron stars (the short bursts), or the collapse of large stars, creating a black hole (the long ones). — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 July 2026