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

As this pink delicacy was halfway down my gullet, you screamed out, “Tidbit, that’s the prop! We still need to shoot a closeup from another angle.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 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

Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that's found anywhere in the oesophagus, sometimes called the gullet or food pipe, which connects your mouth to your stomach.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023

It went straight back to my gullet and caught on fire.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam