black hole

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Black-hole bounty Astronomers have announced the detection of four new gravitational-wave events — ripples in the fabric of space-time created by cataclysmic cosmic events.

From Nature • Dec. 4, 2018

Talk about the Black-hole of Calcutta, why it was nothing to this!

From Bible Romances First Series by Foote, G. W. (George William)

In filth it was a pig-sty, in smell a monkey-house, in ventilation another Black-hole of Calcutta.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus