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Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.
Andrea M. Ghez

Meaning of "black hole" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLACK HOLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLACK HOLE

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Black hole is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLACK HOLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Black hole

A black hole is defined as a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole, there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return. The hole is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime predicts that event horizons emit radiation like a black body with a finite temperature. This temperature is inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole, making it difficult to observe this radiation for black holes of stellar mass or greater. Objects whose gravity fields are too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace.

Definition of black hole in the English dictionary

The definition of black hole in the dictionary is an object in space so dense that its escape velocity exceeds the speed of light. Other definition of black hole is any place regarded as resembling a black hole in that items or information entering it cannot be retrieved.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLACK HOLE

black goods
black gram
black grouse
black guillemot
black gum
Black Hand
black hat
black heat
black hickory
Black Hills
Black Hole of Calcutta
black horehound
black house
black humor
black humour
black ice
Black Isle
black ivory
black japan
black kite

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLACK HOLE

air hole
bolt hole
bullet hole
cat hole
coal hole
doughnut hole
dry hole
funk hole
glory hole
in the hole
kettle hole
nineteenth hole
on the whole
ozone hole
rabbit hole
shot hole
snow hole
sound hole
spider hole
water hole
watering hole

Synonyms and antonyms of black hole in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «black hole» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLACK HOLE

Find out the translation of black hole to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of black hole from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «black hole» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黑洞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agujero negro
570 millions of speakers

English

black hole
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ब्लैक होल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الثقب الأسود
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

черная дыра
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

buraco negro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কৃষ্ণ গহ্বর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trou noir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

lubang hitam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schwarzes Loch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ブラックホール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

블랙홀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

bolongan ireng
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lỗ đen
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருப்பு துளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कृष्ण विवर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kara delik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

buco nero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czarna dziura
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Чорна діра
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gaură neagră
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

μαύρη τρύπα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

swart gat
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

svart hål
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svart hull
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of black hole

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLACK HOLE»

The term «black hole» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.901 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about black hole

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10 QUOTES WITH «BLACK HOLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word black hole.
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Marina Abramovic
Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.
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Yehuda Amichai
I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.
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Sergey Brin
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
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Dorothea Benton Frank
Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.
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Andrea M. Ghez
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.
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Andrea M. Ghez
Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.
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Andrea M. Ghez
Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.
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Andrea M. Ghez
Our galaxy's pretty ordinary, garden-variety. So if we believe our galaxy has a super massive black hole, that tells us that most, if not all, galaxies host such a black hole at their centers.
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Andrea M. Ghez
An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life.
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Andrea M. Ghez
I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at the center of our galaxy. And the reason this is interesting is that it gives us an opportunity to prove whether or not these exotic objects really exist.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLACK HOLE»

Discover the use of black hole in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to black hole and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Black Hole
Seattle teenagers of the 1970s are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that spreads only through sexual contact.
Charles Burns, 2008
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with clarity and enthusiasm.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2007
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make ...
Documents the author's professional battles with Stephen Hawking over theories about black holes, a conflict that has significantly influenced the scientific community's understanding of the universe's fundamental laws.
Leonard Susskind, 2009
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The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power
"This is a powerfully argued account of the origins and subsequent justification of British rule in India, and an exploration of the response by Bengali elites to colonialism.
Partha Chatterjee, 2012
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A Black Hole Is Not a Hole
Introduces black holes, describing their physical features, how they were discovered, what causes them, and where they exist in space.
Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, 2012
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Black Hole Physics: Basic Concepts and New Developments
It is not an exaggeration to say that one of the most exciting predictions of Einstein's theory of gravitation is that there may exist "black holes": putative objects whose gravitational fields are so strong that no physical bodies or ...
V. Frolov, Igorʹ Dmitrievich Novikov, 1998
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Black Hole Astrophysics: The Engine Paradigm
This book first introduces the properties of simple isolated holes, then adds in complications like rotation, accretion, radiation, and magnetic fields, finally arriving at a basic understanding of how these immense engines work.Black Hole ...
David L. Meier, 2009
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Examines such phenomena as black holes, wormholes, singularities, gravitational waves, and time machines, exploring the fundamental principles that control the universe.
Kip S. Thorne, 1994
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Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Black Hole ...
In this book, Robert Wald provides a coherent, pedagogical introduction to the formulation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
Robert M. Wald, 1994
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Introduction to Black Hole Physics
Can objects similar to black holes be used for space and time travel? This book discusses these and many other questions providing the reader with the tools required to explore the Black Hole Land independently.
Valeri P. Frolov, Andrei Zelnikov, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLACK HOLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term black hole is used in the context of the following news items.
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Black hole near star fires out x-rays in rare occurrence
A rare phenomenon was spotted on June 15 when a NASA satellite measured a large burst of x-rays coming from a black hole, being circled by ... «Times of Malta, Jul 15»
2
A black hole under the gravitational lens
What is clear is that hot gas in the form of a disk orbits the central black hole. It is probable that strong magnetic fields, which accelerate the ... «Nanowerk, Jul 15»
3
Hidden supermassive black holes revealed
An artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole, actively feasting on its ... The central black hole is hidden from direct view by a thick layer of ... «EarthSky, Jul 15»
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Vyapam Scam is 'Black Hole', Supreme Court Should Monitor Probe …
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party today described Madhya Pradesh's Vyapam scam as a "black hole" which has "claimed several lives", as it sought ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
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Zombie leaders staring at a black hole
I was reading my first eBook last week, the Kindle edition of a novel called Chasing Dragons by Eddie Naughton - a very decent piece of work ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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Black Hole 'Wakes Up' and Spews X-Rays After Napping for 26 Years
After taking a 26-year nap, a waking black hole released a burst of X-rays that lit up astronomical observatories on June 15 — and it's still ... «NBCNews.com, Jul 15»
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Big Bang Nixed --"Our Universe Evolved from the Black Hole of a …
The event horizon of a black hole — the point of no return for anything that falls in — is a spherical surface. In a higher-dimensional universe, ... «The Daily Galaxy, Jul 15»
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Rochester City Hall a black hole for open-records requests
Thirty Church Street has become a black hole for open-records requests. They're swallowed up and never seen again. That has been our ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»
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Warning over 'growing black hole' in NHS finances
Patient care will suffer if the Chancellor does not announce additional NHS funding in next week's budget, a think tank has warned. The King's ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
10
West Virginia witness says huge triangle UFO contained 'black hole'
A West Virginia witness at Bluefield reported watching two large, triangle-shaped UFOs in the night sky with a “black hole” in the center of the ... «Open Minds UFO News, Jul 15»

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