black hole

noun

Definition of black holenext
as in emptiness
empty space discovered that there was a black hole in the library's collection with regard to her topic

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Recent Examples of black hole The bursts last a few milliseconds to a few hundred seconds, and are thought to be caused by the merger of two neutron stars (the short bursts), or the collapse of large stars, creating a black hole (the long ones). — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 July 2026 The last stop in space took us to just outside the event horizon of Sagittarius A*, the unimaginably enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way. — Rob Pegoraro, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026 The observatory was named for fast-flying swift birds due to its ability to pivot rapidly to look at cosmic events and afterglows, enabling the study of comets, gravitational waves and black holes over long periods of time. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026 In the image of Messier 94, a spiral galaxy that’s also known as NGC 4736, Chandra’s X-ray data becomes a whistling wind while dense features such as neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes ring in crystalline tones from a glass marimba. — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for black hole
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  1. emptiness
  2. vacancy
  3. void
  4. blank
Noun
  • He was used to being alone without Robin and postretirement but being alone in the interminable stretch of predawn hours was a different sort of emptiness.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Work gives you somewhere to point your attention, somewhere to put the grief, the sadness, the emptiness.
    — Alla Adam, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of emptiness
Noun
  • Overall vacancy downtown has climbed from 14% in 2019 to 34%.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Limited new retail supply, which reflects high land and building costs, should aid rent growth and further tighten vacancy, according to JLL experts.
    — Hang Nguyen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
Definition of vacancy
Noun
  • One minute you could be booked and busy, the next, a major client leaves, and you’re left scrambling to bring in new leads to fill the void.
    — Chelsea Tobin, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • On June 30, Williams and Meir ventured into the void to replace a wrist joint on the space station's Canadarm2 robotic arm that had been malfunctioning.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of void
Noun
  • Portugal swept Uzbekistan aside with a 5-0 victory on matchday two, but a single shot on target against DR Congo and a blank against Colombia does point to an underperformance in their chance creation.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Opportunities to fill in the blanks Our research has also found that researchers may have options to work around government failures to collect and report this more detailed data.
    — Mark Axelrod, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
Definition of blank

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