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maws
Noun
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Feeding black holes also usually emit copious ultraviolet radiation from the white-hot disks of material that pile up around their insatiable maws.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Mandibles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mandibles. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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