How to Use black hole in a Sentence

black hole

noun
  • Could this have been a microlensing event from a rogue black hole?
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Astronomers were able to take note of the black hole thanks to the Hubble telescope.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The photo is of the radio emissions caused by the active feeding of the black hole.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Dec. 2021
  • One of the most efficient ways to combat the black hole effect is to work with a recruiter.
    John Pierce, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Seeing a black hole birthing new stars is both intriguing and inspiring.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The merger left behind a black hole of 142 solar masses.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Astronomers first noted the existence of the rogue black hole in 2011.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The image shows a donut of light around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87.
    Rashed Haq, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Certainly, many a prejudiced lender can hide behind this data black hole, but some more positive trends are also obscured.
    Michael Del Castillo, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Hubble discovered moons of Pluto and proved that most galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their core.
    Don Lincoln, CNN, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The documentary explores the process of creating the first photo of a black hole, which took 250 people about a decade to make.
    Rashed Haq, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
  • John Archibald’s jaw-dropping stories about this town that sucks drivers into a legal ‘black hole’ have had an immediate impact.
    J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The supermassive black hole in question is located roughly 34 million light-years away.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The latter are ripples in the literal fabric of spacetime itself, created by cosmic cataclysms like black holes colliding.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
  • As a graduate student, Reines also coauthored a 2011 study revealing the first evidence for a black hole in the galaxy.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The scientists think the strands are more likely related to past activity caused by the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way rather than the explosions of stars.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • This relationship persists despite galactic mergers, stellar explosions and black hole eruptions.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
  • With ‘Ripe,’ I was drawn to the pomegranate and the black hole.
    Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • The area is known as a torus, swirling around a black hole in the middle.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2023
  • But keep in mind: This is still a black hole in your screen.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Because the laptop doesn’t have the causal power of a black hole.
    IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2023
  • And our own sun is not big enough to make a black hole itself.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Like any object, black holes take time to grow and form.
    WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The gamma-ray burst — witnessed as a long, bright pulse of light — was the birth cry of a black hole.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The researchers measured the mass of one of the black holes as 50 million times that of our sun.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
  • The study is a deeper look at what’s inside a black hole.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The striker position, though, has been a bit of a black hole.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • This is a bit of an enigma and a big problem for black hole hunters.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 July 2022
  • For a certain kind of player, this game is a black hole.
    Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
  • Despite being as small as an atom, these primordial black holes would be heavier than thousands of solar masses and constitute dark matter.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024

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