How to Use black hole in a Sentence

black hole

noun
  • There is no sound in space, but black holes can still sing.
    — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
  • Get ready to fall into a black hole.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Legally, the term has been a kind of black hole.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • But for a black hole, there’s no coming back.
    — Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
  • That’s the key to finding the black hole’s mass!
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And our own sun is not big enough to make a black hole itself.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The area is known as a torus, swirling around a black hole in the middle.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2023
  • What if your child is a black hole of neediness?
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The question now is how this black hole came to exist.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Not all of these black holes are equal, however.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This changes the fate of black holes entirely.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The future is bright for black hole images.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Could this have been a microlensing event from a rogue black hole?
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Not all of this matter finds its way into the black hole, though.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This is a bit of an enigma and a big problem for black hole hunters.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 July 2022
  • In high school, thinking about black holes kept Medeiros up at night.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
  • On the ice, Hakanpaa is a black hole at both ends of the rink.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
  • Think of it as a natural speed cap on how fast a black hole can grow.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • This black hole then ravenously eats its way out of its host planet.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The most massive black hole ever seen?
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Here gas falls into them, and some of it gets flung out along the black hole’s poles.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • This session, though, the budget felt more like a black hole.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 15 May 2026
  • That’s nothing but a black hole, there’s no story there.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The merger led to a black hole about 25 times the mass of the sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 June 2020
  • Why do these black holes evaporate?
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There’s more to figure out about black hole jets and their role in the cosmos.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2021
  • Hot wind is coming out of the Milky Way’s black hole.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Hot wind is coming out of the Milky Way’s black hole.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Some of this energy does not fall into the black hole.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
  • My strategy was to come in and play like the super messy black hole.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Dec. 2025

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