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
Pushing Boundaries To try to make sense of the quantum mechanics of de Sitter space, some physicists have turned to black holes.
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Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
The effect for stellar-mass black holes is vanishingly small but actually gets larger for less massive black holes.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
Its escape games span from exploring ruins for treasure to saving the solar system from a black hole.
—Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2026
And while your guesses have been out of this world, Ken, there are some major black holes in your constellation map.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
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Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
The effect for stellar-mass black holes is vanishingly small but actually gets larger for less massive black holes.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
Its escape games span from exploring ruins for treasure to saving the solar system from a black hole.
—Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2026
And while your guesses have been out of this world, Ken, there are some major black holes in your constellation map.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for black hole
Noun
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Inner emptiness has always been a fixation of Ye.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
1 Apr. 2026
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While fans would have surely loved to get any of these songs over the past five years in lieu of the chaos of 2020s-era Ye, there’s still an emptiness at the heart of Bully.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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And Spandrel’s tower isn’t the only building seeing the effects of low vacancy rates.—
Desiree Mathurin
April 8,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
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The shutdown of the venues was a blow to the Magnificent Mile, where the retail vacancy rate soared as a result of online shopping trends and the pandemic.—
Brian J. Rogal,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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For every event that closes, such as the Johannesburg Biennale (held in 1995 and 1997) and the Marrakech Biennale (2004–16), others, like the Lagos Biennial (founded in 2017) and the Stellenbosch Triennial (founded in 2020), emerge to fill the void.—
Smooth Nzewi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Padilla had given Perez a phone number, but all her calls went into a void.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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Deputies recovered the handgun, which was later determined to be a weapon that fired blanks, the sheriff's department said.—
Chelsea Hylton,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Arsenal already have a blank in Gameweek 31, and an injury only adds further uncertainty around Timber’s availability.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Black hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20hole. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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