A black hole is a bottomless pit in the fabric of space-time into which stuff, including light, plummets, never to be seen again.
The term paints so vivid an image that it has entered everyday language, and we commonly talk of losing this or that “down a black hole”.
Ironically, such a metaphorical black hole has swallowed up the name of the woman who co-discovered these celestial objects: Louise Webster.
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https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6296