How to Use black hole in a Sentence

black hole

noun
  • Heart disease should be a bright spot in this black hole of medical research.
    Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Images came through of the two black holes—or, rather, of the ring of stuff falling into the black holes.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
  • These events sometimes leave nebulae, neutron stars, or even black holes in their wake.
    Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Others thought that the shepherd was actually a small black hole instead of a giant planet.
    Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
  • So the Webb, for instance, identified a black hole but then couldn't focus on it well where the Chandra could.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • That's equivalent to the black hole inside our own galaxy, NASA said.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 May 2024
  • Enlarge / The Milky Way's central black hole is in a very crowded neighborhood.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 July 2024
  • Stellar black holes are dwarfed in size by the supermassive black holes inhabiting the center of most galaxies.
    Will Dunham, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The object’s curious motion indicated that a large black hole nearby had locked it into an orbit.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Ellroy’s cynical noir takes such a dark view of Los Angeles that the city is practically a black hole.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Across the universe Astronomers are watching a supermassive black hole awakening in the middle of a distant galaxy for the first time.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 June 2024
  • Stars that orbit closer to the black hole within 0.01 parsecs most likely will crash and keep going only losing their outer layers.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Neutron stars, black holes, intergalactic gas clouds colliding, even tangled magnetic fields on the sun, can all blast out x- and gamma rays, indicating these objects’ true power.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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 striker position, though, has been a bit of a black hole.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The next-nearest black hole was measured at 3,000 light years away from us.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 10 Nov. 2022
  • It’s the hours spent that are likely to showcase to users just how much of a black hole Reddit can be.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Has anyone been able to define, capture, or even get close to a black hole?
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Besides being the sock black hole, that area is a magnet for dust and dryer lint.
    Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • What happens to the information contained in the matter that formed the black hole?
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But what has shocked researchers about this early black hole is its large size.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The sound swells near Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the galaxy’s center, seen in the lower right region of the image.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • TDEs stands for tidal disruption events and describes the process by which a star is consumed by a black hole.
    Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But one look was like a floral black hole of fabric—a note of surrender amid all the good cheer.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Oct. 2022

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