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black hole

[blak hohl] / ˈblæk ˈhoʊl /
NOUN
abyss
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"You form a black hole, and it immediately disintegrates. But it has a very spherical decay signature, lots of things going in all directions."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

"So what do you need to make a black hole? Well, you have to compress some energy into a really small volume," Giddings explained.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

"When a black hole tears apart a star, it does not swallow everything neatly," Goodwin stated.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Their focus was on tidal disruption events, which occur when a star passes so close to a supermassive black hole that intense gravitational forces rip it apart.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Then a black hole between Captain Ecstatic’s Zero Gravity Dome and the Win-A-Smurf stall sucked Ross Wilcox in.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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