gullet
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Since the flare from J2245+3743 is still visible, astronomers believe the black hole is in mid-meal, "like a fish only halfway down the whale's gullet," Graham says.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025
That would be the mass equivalent of 370 suns a year disappearing down a cosmic gullet 11 billion years ago at the dawn of time.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024
The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2022
Unlike other birds, the male bittern does not use its voice box but muscles around his windpipe to expand his entire gullet into an echo chamber.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2022
Her felt her crop, the upper portion of the gullet where the food first lodges after swallowing.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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