Black hole (disambiguation)

A black hole is an object with sufficient density that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping from it except through quantum tunneling behavior.

It can also refer to:

in media:
*"The Black Hole", a 1979 science fiction movie
*"Black Hole" (2006 film), a science fiction film
*"Black Hole" (2002 film)
*Black Hole (comics), a series of comics by Charles Burns
*Black Hole (Kinnikuman), a character in the manga and anime "Kinnikuman"

in computing:
*Black hole (networking), in computer networking, a place where traffic is silently discarded
*in computer programming, a bit bucket, a place of permanent oblivion for data
*black hole, the name of an archive, usually with the extension .bh
*DNSBL – used to block spamming IP addresses – are often called "blackhole lists"
*Blackhole server, a DNS server that handles reverse lookups of invalid IP ranges

in games:
*Black Hole (pinball game), a 1981 pinball machine manufactured by Gottlieb
*Black Hole (arcade game), an arcade game by TDS
*Black Hole (solitaire), a solitaire game
*Black Hole, one of the factions in the Advance Wars games

in government:
*A legal black hole, a term in English contract law
*The Black Hole, NATO slang for a Russian Kilo class submarine
*A black hole, in defense contracting, slang for a work area allegedly hosting a black project

in tourist attractions:
*The Black Hole (roller coaster), a (defunct) rollercoaster at Alton Towers
*The Black Hole, a ride at the now defunct Las Vegas Wet 'n Wild water park

places:
*Black Hole of Calcutta, the dungeon in which many British troops and various civilians allegedly died in 1756
*The Black Hole, nickname for the home stadium of the Oakland Raiders, especially the end zone section on the home side
*The Black Hole, a nickname for the tunnel in the Monaco Grand Prix Formula One race

in music:
*"Black Hole Sun", a Soundgarden song from their 1994 album Superunknown
*"Black Holes and Revelations", the fourth album of the group Muse
*Black Hole Recordings, a record label
*"Kids of the Black Hole", a song by The Adolescents.
*"Supermassive Black Hole (song)", a single from the group Muse
*"Songs from the Black Hole", a never released Weezer album
*"Blackhole", a song by Beck
*Black Hole, a brand of endpin stop for a cello or bass
*"Beyond The Black Hole", Gamma Ray song from album, "Somewhere Out In Space"
*Blackhole, a hardcore band

in business:
*black hole, any effort which consumes resources without yielding a useful result

ee also

*Micro black hole, "mini black hole", or "quantum mechanical black hole"; a black hole on a quantum level or with quantum effects