black hole

Example Sentences

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I’ve been wrestling, like Steve, to find ways to free myself from the black hole in my pocket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

As bleak, frightening and all-around life-ruining as the internet has proven itself to be, there was a time not long ago when the World Wide Web felt like a portal, not a black hole.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

The next day, Charlie and Emma begin discussing the circumstances that preceded her plan — depression, bullying, the black hole of the internet — before pausing for an appointment.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026

"The lighter a black hole is, the hotter it should be and the more particles it will emit," says Andrea Thamm, co-author of the new research and assistant professor of physics at UMass Amherst.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

The curvature of space gets greater and greater as you approach a black hole, and it never bottoms out.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife