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black hole

[blak hohl] / ˈblæk ˈhoʊl /
NOUN
abyss
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"The prospect of identifying inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries years before future space-based gravitational wave detectors come online is extremely exciting," concludes Professor Kocsis.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

"It opens the door to true multi-messenger studies of black holes, allowing us to test gravity and black hole physics in entirely new ways."

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Every time she hands her children over to their father, she said, it feels like they’re being sucked into a black hole.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"This work has the potential to explain the magnetic dynamics relevant in, for example, neutron star mergers and black hole formation, with direct applications to multimessenger astronomy," Tripathi says.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

Even though a black hole is a star, none of the light it shines ever escapes past the event horizon; that’s why it’s black.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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