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
These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary death of a star, or when it is shredded by a black hole.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
If black holes can grow this quickly, scientists may not need to invoke exotic, rare conditions to explain the existence of billion-solar-mass black holes so soon after the Big Bang.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
There’s no clear upper limit, but astronomers consider any black holes of less than 100 solar masses to be in the stellar-mass black hole category.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
If black holes can grow this quickly, scientists may not need to invoke exotic, rare conditions to explain the existence of billion-solar-mass black holes so soon after the Big Bang.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
There’s no clear upper limit, but astronomers consider any black holes of less than 100 solar masses to be in the stellar-mass black hole category.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for black hole
Noun
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The persistent emptiness of what might have been.—
Aisha Muharrar,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
2 Oct. 2025
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That’s because Horton’s emptiness is felt downtown wide.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Following his staffers' resignation, Pruitt released a statement that his office already had applicants to fill the vacancies and would continue to carry out its duties.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Giants’ initial list of external candidates is believed to include most of the names that will be popular with other clubs that have managerial vacancies.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But carpe diem for Egbuka, who is a massive enough talent to step into this void and withstand extra defensive attention.—
Michael Salfino,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Aiming to fill a void in the female nerd and nerds of color space on screen, filmmaker Cheyenne Ewulu followed the bat signal.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Toklas filled in the blanks for him, sometimes unwittingly.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Hissrich mentions needing to fill in a lot of the blanks left in that character's story in the books.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Black hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20hole. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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