How to Use black hole in a Sentence

black hole

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  • 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 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
  • Wouldn’t a supermassive black hole have a stronger one?
    — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Future upgrades could permit movies of the black hole in motion, said the researchers.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Its black hole would have stopped growing long ago, Wolf writes in the Conversation.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The first photo ever of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope and released on May 2022.
    — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But this, like the fiscal black hole itself, can be misleading.
    — Time, 17 Nov. 2022
  • This is the region around a black hole that represents the ultimate point of no return.
    — Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The jets are one way astronomers can indirectly infer the presence of a black hole.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
  • To make progress in building such a model, one option is to place the computer inside a black hole.
    — Simon Duan, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The black hole in question is located around 665 million light-years from Earth.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The stars are spread out into a pinwheel shape with the majority of them clustered around a black hole that resides in the core.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Astronomers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • One idea is that the first stars were extremely large and would have formed unusually large black holes.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • While black holes don’t emit light, the shadow of the cosmic object was surrounded by a bright ring — light bent by the gravity of the black hole.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The largest of them, FTX, collapsed in upon itself in a multibillion-dollar black hole.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2022

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