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Recent Examples of black holes
These jets can help scientists better understand how black holes help shape galaxies and other cosmic structures through large-scale shocks and turbulence.
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Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
Hungry black holes are the hidden architects of the cosmos.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
In such environments, gravitational encounters can pair black holes together or disturb existing pairs, leading to the mixed spin orientations and more complex motion seen in the data.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
Like all black holes, primordial black holes have mass and thus interact with gravity and are effectively invisible due to the fact that they are bounded by a light-trapping surface called an event horizon.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
Hungry black holes are the hidden architects of the cosmos.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
In such environments, gravitational encounters can pair black holes together or disturb existing pairs, leading to the mixed spin orientations and more complex motion seen in the data.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
Like all black holes, primordial black holes have mass and thus interact with gravity and are effectively invisible due to the fact that they are bounded by a light-trapping surface called an event horizon.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for black holes
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Currently the Milwaukee Bucks and New Orleans Pelicans have vacancies.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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While board members agreed to eliminate the positions of dozens of teachers who are not based at specific schools, Hepburn said there’s so much turnover among teaching staff that they should easily get placed in schools to fill vacancies and are at low risk for being laid off.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Minted gold bars Minted gold bars are made from refined gold that’s rolled into thin strips, cut into blanks and stamped with a high-pressure press.—
Jessica Walrack,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
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After Suno spit out the concept, a collection of world-class musicians including string players and a drummer recorded the musical bits to fill in the blanks and add a more personalized human touch.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Apr. 2026
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The claim, remember, is that these cosmic voids are completely empty of normal matter, dark matter, and emit no detectable radiation of any kind.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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Schoen used void years sparingly early in his tenure, but the Giants are one of the few teams currently with no contracts containing voids.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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In sixteenth-century Italian pedante comedies, the Latin tutors—always the butt of the joke—are known more for the gaps in their knowledge than for their erudition.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Policymakers, especially here in Tokyo, would be wise to accept more foreign workers to plug labor gaps, but that’s not a durable answer on its own.—
Catherine Thorbecke,
Twin Cities,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Black holes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20holes. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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