white hole
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Astronomy. a theoretical celestial object into which matter is funneled from a black hole.
Example Sentences
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In the same conversation, Dr. Bardeen described recent ideas he had about what happens as a black hole evaporates, suggesting that it might change into a white hole,
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2022
For that one reason, the sense that there is a huge white hole at the burning center of federal civil rights law seems inescapable today.
From Slate • Nov. 23, 2021
But here, now, something came burrowing out of a white hole.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2010
If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it, rather than leave a white hole in the page.
From The Guardian • Apr. 14, 2010
Still, he eats the paint and plaster until a white hole grows where pale green paint used to be.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
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