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Noun Concept

Categories: Concepts in astronomy, Articles with short description, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Black holes, Galaxies

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A region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field WordNet 3.0

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A region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light and other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. Wikipedia

Object with sufficient density that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping from it except through quantum tunneling behavior. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Astronomical object so massive that anything falling into it, including light, cannot escape its gravity Wikidata

Object predicted by general relativity with a gravitational field so strong that nothing can escape it, not even light. OmegaWiki

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region

massive compact halo object

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event horizon

gravitational singularity

firewall

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binary black hole

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