How to Use black hole in a Sentence

black hole

noun
  • 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
  • On the ice, Hakanpaa is a black hole at both ends of the rink.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
  • The Messier 87 black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • 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
  • There’s more to figure out about black hole jets and their role in the cosmos.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2021
  • 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
  • And all wonder why the nation fell into a black hole over the past four years!
    Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alice might never have the chance to hide her secrets in a black hole.
    Zoë Holmes, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
  • That includes the gas around the supermassive black hole in the galaxy at the top of the cluster.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022
  • In those places —those abysses, those black holes—of empathy.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Musicians were encouraged to pop in this black hole of a place and jam all hours of the night.
    J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2021
  • What ensues is the black hole of Italian cuisine, sucking in both gravity and light.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024

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