How to Use black hole in a Sentence

black hole

noun
  • Within seconds he was blasted to the cosmos and entered the event horizon of a black hole.
    Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Stars, planets, and black holes are all usually found inside these bustling cosmic neighborhoods.
    Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Enlarge / One of the jets emitted by galaxy M87's central black hole.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
  • With Eternals, Marvel proves itself to be nothing more than a staid, lumbering black hole.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Maybe each memory serves less as a retreat and more as a pull, like a gravitational force, a black hole, that takes them from the present to a past far more vivid.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The material near the neutron star or black hole becomes superheated and glows in X-rays.
    Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The black hole at point guard is now filled with a player of All-Star potential, making each move beforehand more sensible.
    Tom Rende, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Thousands of variously sized glass marbles, arranged on a dark, round mat, seem to undulate like boiling water, or maybe spacetime in a black hole.
    Laura Hudson, Wired, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The research estimates the new potential planet would orbit a neutron star or black hole at about twice the distance of Saturn from the Sun.
    Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Another is a bursting object orbiting a second structure, such as a black hole surrounded by a disk of material, that cyclically obscures the explosive events.
    Adam Mann, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Astronomers were able to take note of the black hole thanks to the Hubble telescope.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • The black hole in the middle of our galaxy is getting some time in the spotlight.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 12 May 2022
  • But how and when does this happen, and which comes first: the galaxy or its black hole?
    New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The photo is of the radio emissions caused by the active feeding of the black hole.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The same telescope group released the first black hole image in 2019.
    Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2022
  • The next-nearest black hole was measured at 3,000 light years away from us.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Could this have been a microlensing event from a rogue black hole?
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2022

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