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What is a black hole?

What is a black hole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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 collapsing massive star.
  2. (figuratively) A void into which things disappear and/or from which nothing emerges.
    1. A sphere of influence into which or from which communication or similar activity is precluded.
    2. An entity which consumes time or resources without demonstrable utility.
  3. A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom.
  4. (Internet) Alternative spelling of blackhole
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Sound does travel in space, evidenced by the B flat note emanating from a black hole discovered by scientists in the last couple weeks.
At some point after its formation, the black hole emits a flare of superheated gases, travelling at relativistic speeds.
Gas and dust funnel towards a black hole in an accretion disk, swirling around and into the void like water down a drain.
He hacked at a wall of vines, which fell and revealed a gaping, black hole.
But before this material is permanently captured, it gathers into a swirling accretion disk that surrounds the black hole and radiates intensely.
At those rates, each galaxy could easily have formed the quasar and its black hole power source in just a few hundred million years.

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