white hole

American  

noun

1. pigeonhole.

2. Astronomy. a theoretical celestial object into which matter is funneled from a black hole.

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Example Sentences

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

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

In order for Stojkovic and Dai’s idea to work, any wormhole within Sagittarius A* must lack an event horizon—the boundary beyond which gravity’s inexorable pull allows nothing, not even light, to escape—so it would be different from the Einstein-Rosen bridge idea of a black hole on one side and a white hole on the other.

From Scientific American

A white hole acts like the reverse of a black hole by emitting energy while not allowing anything to enter.

From Scientific American

Heat pours through “the white hole of noon,” and on the Aegean, “darkened yachts look like flies crawling on raw, blue meat.”

From Washington Post