as in emptiness
empty space
discovered that there was a black hole in the library's collection with regard to her topic
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Recent Examples of black hole
Galison, who is also a physicist, works on the Event Horizon Telescope, which images black holes.
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IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
The AGNs that Graham studies are active supermassive black holes and their surrounding accretion disks.
—Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2026
Event Horizon refers to the boundary of a black hole beyond which light can’t escape, according to the National Science Foundation.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
So many options, but nothing to wear... a bespoke black hole of despair.
—Erin Parker, InStyle, 22 Jan. 2026
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IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
The AGNs that Graham studies are active supermassive black holes and their surrounding accretion disks.
—Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2026
Event Horizon refers to the boundary of a black hole beyond which light can’t escape, according to the National Science Foundation.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
So many options, but nothing to wear... a bespoke black hole of despair.
—Erin Parker, InStyle, 22 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for black hole
Recent Examples of Synonyms for black hole
Noun
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In a city willing to displace a community garden or a newsstand to claw back a few extra feet, the Armory’s yawning, epochal emptiness seems like poking through your medicine cabinet and finding an alternate universe behind it.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
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Not a feeling of exhaustion, but an emptiness.—
Kelly Ehlers,
Rolling Stone,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The council also approved the appointment of Josiah Ben-Oni Graham to fill a partial-term vacancy that expires in November.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
12 Feb. 2026
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Sitting commissioners of the housing authority make recommendations to fill vacancies on the panel, subject to the approval of the city's Board of Directors, which has a window of time following the decision to confirm or reject an individual.—
Joseph Flaherty,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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As data disappears and health recommendations slacken, independent groups are rallying together to fill the public health data and leadership void.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
3 Feb. 2026
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Running back Rico Dowdle was a newcomer this year, filling the void quite nicely after Chuba Hubbard missed some time.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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But the blanks in D__’s name, like everything else in Poppick’s portrait of a poet as an aging millennial man, are deliberate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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Obviously, blanks were used, but the concussive blast of the cannon needed to be regulated.—
Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Black hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20hole. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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