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Noun
en-noun|sg=black hole
- A gravitationally domineering celestial body with an event horizon from which even light cannot escape; the most dense material in the universe, condensed into a singularity, usually formed by a collapse|collapsing massive star.
- A sphere of influence into which or from which communication or similar activity is precluded.
#*2006 October 23, Tom Zeller Jr., �The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea�, The New York Times
#*: Julien Pain, head of the Internet desk at Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group which tracks censorship around the world, put it more bluntly. �It is by far the worst Internet black hole,� he said.
#*2000 November 26, Linda Seebach, �Unwanted e-mail belongs in an Internet black hole�, RockyMountainNews?.com 1
#*:you'll have to love U.S. District Court Judge John Kane's decision to keep Denver-based Exactis.com out of an Internet black hole.... MAPS maintains a database of Internet addresses that it believes send or relay spam. It's called the "Realtime Blackhole List"
- An entity which consumes time or resources without demonstrable utility.
#*2004 September 30, Andrew P. Leyden, �The Internet black hole�, PenguinSix?, at <tt>PenguinSix?.com</tt> 2
#*: Now that I'm basically up all night US Time, I've started to notice that there really isn't that much going on on the net between say 10:00 and 9:00 AM EDT.
#*2004 November 16, Jenifer Hanen, �How I fell down an Internet Black Hole....�, Black Phoebe, at <tt>www.blackphoebe.com</tt> 3
#*:I finished some client work and gave myself 30 minutes to fall down one of my favorite internet black holes: genealogical research. Four hours plus some later, my eyes were burning in my head
Antonyms
white hole
Translations
trans-top|celestial body
Afrikaans: swartgat
Albanian: vrima e zezë
Arabic: ARchar|ث�ب أس�د m
Basque: zulo beltz
Bengali: ��ষ�ণ�হ�বর
Bosnian: crna rupa f
Bulgarian: �е�на д�пка f
Catalan: forat negre m
Chinese: �� (h�i dòng)
:Min Nan: o�-khang
Croatian: crna rupa f
Czech: Ä�erná dÃra f
Danish: sort hul
Dutch: zwart gat n
Esperanto: nigra truo
Estonian: must auk
Finnish: musta aukko
French: trou noir m
Galician: burato negro m
Georgian: á�¨á��á��á�� á�®á��á� á��á��á�� (Å¡avi Ï�vreli)
German: schwarzes Loch n
Greek: μα��η ����α f
Hebrew: ��ר ש��ר m
Hungarian: fekete lyuk
Icelandic: svarthol
Ido: nigra truo
Indonesian: lubang hitam
Interlingua: cavo nigre
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Italian: buco nero m
Japanese: ������� (burakkuh�ru)
Korean: ��� (beullaekhol)
Latin: gurges ater m
Latvian: melnais caurums
Lithuanian: juodoji skyl�
Lombard: büüs negru
Malay: lohong hitam
Malayalam: തമ�ദ�വാര�
Maltese: toqba sewda f
Norwegian: svart hull, sort hull
Persian: FAchar|س�ا��ا��
Polish: czarna dziura f
Portuguese: buraco negro m
Romanian: gaur� neagr� f
Russian: ���на� д��а (�órnaja dyrá) f
Serbian: ��на ��па (crna rupa) f
Sicilian: purtùsu nìuru m
Slovak: �ierna diera f
Slovene: �rna luknja f
Spanish: agujero negro m
Swedish: svart hål n
Tamil: �ர�����ழி
Thai: THchar|หลุม�ำ (l�om dam)
Turkish: kara delik
Ukrainian: �о�на д��а (�órna dirá) f
Urdu: URchar|ث�ب اس�د
Vietnamese: h� �en
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See also
neutron star
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