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Black Hole

Slang; a project that takes an inordinate amount of time to complete. For example, if a contractor spends so much time on one client that she cannot devote enough time to other clients to satisfy their needs, the first client is known as a black hole. The term is most common in accounting and auditing.

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In theory, these scenarios indicate that black holes are formed when a massive volume of mass exists at a certain spot in space.

Earth May Already Be Inside A Black Hole, Scientist Says

Typically, stars will only form black holes with masses of up to 45 M?.

University of Birmingham: Where in the universe can you find a black hole nursery?

The black hole at the center of NGC 3147 is approximately 130 million light-years from Earth.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovers a black hole disk that shouldn't exist

It was Einstein's theory of general relativity that predicted the formation of black holes.

Black hole visual unveiled by astronomers

This and the lack of any observed object at that location strongly suggests an intermediate-mass black hole. By analyzing other anomalous clouds, we hope to expose other quiet black holes."

Hiding Black Hole Found

Supermassive black holes might have grown out of the collapse of the first generation of stars, which would have given birth to 100-solar-mass "seeds." The abundance of early stars means this kind of seed would have been common.

Middleweight Black Holes Shed Light on Early Universe

The idea that a plethora of smaller black holes may surround the "supermassive" hole at the heart of the Milky Way dates back decades.

Scientists discover 10,000 black holes hiding at centre of Milky Way; The idea that many smaller black holes may surround the "supermassive" hole at the heart of the Milky Way dates back decades but has remained unproven - until now

For around 20 years, astrophysicists have predicted that thousands of smaller black holes should exist around Sagittarius A* because it is surrounded by enormous halos of gas and dust, which provide a perfect breeding ground for the birth and, ultimately the death, of stars.

Scientists: '10,000 black holes in Milky Way'

Black holes are objects of very high density with a gravitational pull so strong that even light cannot escape them.

A Black Hole Burps... Twice!

When the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO, glimpsed gravitational waves from two merging black holes, scientists were surprised at how large the black holes were--about 30 times the mass of the sun (SN: 3/5/16, p.

LIGO find offers dark matter hint: massive black holes detected last year could be primordial

The newly discovered supersized black hole resides in the center of a massive elliptical galaxy, NGC 1600, located in a cosmic backwater, a small grouping of 20 or so galaxies, said lead discoverer Chung-Pei Ma, a University of California-Berkeley astronomer and head of the MASSIVE Survey, a research project analyzing vast galaxies and supermassive black holes in the universe.