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black holes

noun

plural of black hole

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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 holes Its songs are littered with black holes, disasters, nuclear bombs; there are guttural screams and onslaughts of distorted guitar. — Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026 Many black holes may be unobservable, owing to their having no companions, and dark matter may be attuned to a fifth dimension. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026 Extreme rotation offers a narrow loophole The researchers found that rapidly rotating black holes could provide a possible way around the entropy barrier. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026 So far, astronomers have not detected any stupendously large black holes — currently, the largest black hole known may weigh about 36 billion suns. — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026 Both events are thought to generate black holes, at least most of the time. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Some of the most cataclysmic events in the cosmos, such as mergers of supermassive black holes, should produce a very specific gravitational wave signature, according to general relativity. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026 The Nobel committee said IceCube would take neutrino astronomy to a new level, providing information about cosmic phenomena that are hidden behind dust clouds and distant space objects such as black holes. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

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That will leave the council with two Black members out of 15 for the first time since 1963, not counting temporary vacancies, according to archivists in the City Clerk’s office.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
European leaders are expected to work out a package deal to apportion the three vacancies among member countries in a complex round of political bargaining.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of vacancies

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Scaling up Engineers discovered voids, or air pockets, between layers of carbon fiber that make up the domes’ composite structure.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
The goal was to produce a more uniform film with compact crystal grains and fewer voids and defects.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of voids

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But Rodrigues believes technology can augment traditional teaching methods by examining how a student solves an algebra problem or structures a piece of writing and identifying learning gaps.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
Companies that close those gaps will move faster than those chasing every new tool.

— Radoslav Nedelchev, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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