black holes

plural of black hole
as in vacancies
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 holes Both events are thought to generate black holes, at least most of the time. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Astronomers estimate that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, has churned out more than 10 million black holes over its 13-billion-year history. — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026 Some of the most cataclysmic events in the cosmos, such as mergers of supermassive black holes, should produce a very specific gravitational wave signature, according to general relativity. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026 The Nobel committee said IceCube would take neutrino astronomy to a new level, providing information about cosmic phenomena that are hidden behind dust clouds and distant space objects such as black holes. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026 Using data from powerful telescopes, the show will send you zooming through space with images of star clusters, black holes and much more. — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 Contrary to what Stephen Hawking argued, black holes are not inescapable prisons. — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • The rush of vacancies last year likely created a slower market this year, but an all-hands-on-deck effort to maximize the money that goes into college football rosters is also driving the new reality.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Electrons from outer shells then fell into those vacancies, releasing energy as X-rays.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • With so few ancient samples of dodo DNA surviving—and that which does exist having degraded over the centuries—the analytic and number-crunching power of AI is just what’s needed to fill in the genetic blanks.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The shoot involved firing blanks and igniting explosions, theatrics that shocked the film’s residential neighbors and spurred concerns over public safety.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Scaling up Engineers discovered voids, or air pockets, between layers of carbon fiber that make up the domes’ composite structure.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The goal was to produce a more uniform film with compact crystal grains and fewer voids and defects.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The double-slit experiment, for example, is a classic setup where scientists send particles through two gaps in a screen and observe a resulting interference pattern, proving that the particles act as waves.
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Kyiv has since also reported gaps in intelligence sharing and restrictions on Elon Musk’s Starlink service, which is crucial for its drone missions, battlefield communications and air defense.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026

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“Black holes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20holes. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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