word
Black Hole
blak hohl
/blæk hoʊl/Listen
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Syllable breakdown
blackhole
Dictionary meaning
Region of spacetime with gravity so strong nothing can escape — not even light; formed when massive stars collapse; the event horizon is the point of no return; Stephen Hawking showed black holes slowly evaporate through quantum effects (Hawking radiation)
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