in astrophysics, 1968, probably with awareness of the notorious Black Hole of Calcutta, incident of June 19, 1756, in which 146 British POWs taken by the Nawab of Bengal after the capture of Ft. Willi [..]

Click for a picture Simulated black hole in front of the Milky Way (Source: Space Time Travel: http://www.spacetimetravel.org/galerie/galerie.html - Credit: Ute Kraus) The warped space-time remaining [..]

The collapsed core of a massive star. Stars that are very massive will collapse under their own gravity when their fuel is exhausted. The collapse continues until all matter is crushed out of existenc [..]

region of space where the gravitational field is so strong even light cannot escape.

A region of space containing a huge amount of mass compacted into an extremely small volume. A black hole’s gravitational influence is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape its grasp. Swi [..]

Routing term for an area of the internetwork where packets enter, but do not emerge, due to adverse conditions or poor system configuration within a portion of the network.

A region of space containing a huge amount of mass compacted into an extremely small volume. A black hole’s gravitational influence is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape its grasp. Swi [..]

n. When a piece of email or netnews disappears mysteriously between its origin and destination sites (that is, without returning a bounce message) it is commonly said to have `fallen into a black hole [..]

An object with so much mass concentrated in it, and therefore such a strong gravitational pull that nothing, not even light can escape from it. One way in which black holes are believed to form is when massive stars collapse at the end of their lives.

Slang term for a router that goes down (offline) and whose absence goes undetected by other routers on the network. Packets that are forwarded to that router simply get dropped and never arrive at the [..]

A concentration of mass so dense that nothing — not even light — can escape its gravitational pull once swallowed up. Many galaxies (including ours) have supermassive black holes at their centers. Want to know more? Check out our FREE ebook on black holes.

The leftover core of a super massive star after a supernova. Black holes exert a tremendous gravitational pull.

An object whose gravity is so strong that the escape velocity is equal to or greater than the speed of light; thus no radiation can escape from the object.

An object whose gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from it. Black holes are the evolutionary endpoints of stars at least 10 to 15 times as massive as the Sun. If a star that massive or larger undergoes a supernova explosion, it may leave behind a fairly massive burned out stellar remnant. With no outward forces to oppose gravitatio [..]

The theoretical remaining core of a supernova that is so dense that even light cannot escape

A collapsed star of such huge density that nothing - not even light - can escape, due to the intense gravitational field.

A highly condensed region of matter, with a gravitational attraction so strong that anything that comes too close to it – even light – cannot escape. Black holes can’t be seen, but can be detected through the gravitational effects they exert on other objects. Some black holes are the end product for massive stars as they evolve. Many galaxies have [..]

SP A collapsed star from which no light can escape, due to the intense gravitational field.

A black hole, in the context of divorce, refers to the legal vacuum that happens when a spouse dies during a divorce, leaving the surviving spouse without recourse either under the state’s divorce or [..]

A term used to describe where a piece of email or netnews has fallen into if it disappears mysteriously between the origin and destination sites.

An extremely dense region of space where the gravitational pull is so massive that nothing can escape its force (Lesson 31)

(n.) An object that has collapsed under its own gravitation to such a small radius that its gravitational force traps photons of light.

an extremely compact object, collapsed by gravity which has overcome electric and nuclear forces. It is believed that stars appreciably larger than the Sun, once they have exhausted all their nuclear [..]

A tunnel.

A black hole, in the context of computer networks, is a place where incoming packets are destroyed or discarded without informing the sender or recipient of their failed delivery. Data packets are sen [..]

theoretically a massive object formed at the beginning of the universe or by a gravitational collapse of a star exploding as a supernova. The gravitational field is intense that no electromagnetic rad [..]

A region of space containing a huge amount of mass compacted into an extremely small volume. A black hole’s gravitational influence is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape its grasp. Swirling disks of material – called accretion disks – may surround black holes, and jets of matter may arise from their vicinity.

an object so massive and dense that even light cannot escape its gravity