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black hole

[blak hohl] / ˈblæk ˈhoʊl /
NOUN
abyss
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A single supermassive black hole can dramatically magnify a background star, but only when the alignment is almost perfect.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Most galaxies contain a supermassive black hole at their center.

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

It is at the zero hour of the big bang and the ground zero of the black hole that the mathematical equations that describe our world stop making sense.

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




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