Black hole (disambiguation)

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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.

Black hole may also refer to:

Computing

• Black hole (networking), in computer networking, a place where traffic is silently discarded
• Blackhole exploit kit, used to install malware on victims' computers
• DNSBL (DNS-based Black Hole List), used to block spamming IP addresses; they are often called "blackhole lists"
• Blackhole server, a DNS server that handles reverse lookups of invalid IP ranges
• bit bucket, in computer programming, a place of permanent oblivion for data
• Blackhole, one of the storage engines provided by MySQL databases

Media

• The Black Hole, a 1979 science fiction film
• Black Holes (film), a 1995 Italian film
• The Black Hole (2006 film), a science fiction film
• Black Hole (2013 film), an unreleased film
• Black Hole (2015 film), a documentary film
• Black Hole (comics), a series of comics by Charles Burns
• Black Hole (Kinnikuman), a character in the manga and anime Kinnikuman
• "Black Hole" (House), the sixteenth episode of the sixth season of the American medical drama House

Games

• Black Hole (pinball), a 1981 pinball machine manufactured by Gottlieb
• Black Hole (video game), a 1981 arcade game by TDS
• Black Hole (solitaire), a solitaire card game
• Black Hole Entertainment, a video game developer
• Black Hole, one of the factions in the Advance Wars games
• Blackhole (video game), a 2015 video game by FiolaSoft Studio.

Government

• 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

Places

• Black Hole of Calcutta, the dungeon in which many British troops and various civilians allegedly died in 1756
• Black hole (ride), a common name for a ride that is a combination of two popular ride types, the roller coaster and the dark ride
• Black Hole (roller coaster), a (defunct) rollercoaster at Alton Towers
• The Black Hole, a ride at the now-defunct Las Vegas location of Wet 'n Wild
• The Black Hole, a surplus store in Los Alamos, New Mexico, operated by Ed Grothus (1923–2009)
• 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
• The Black Hole, a section of White Canyon, Utah

Music

• Black Hole Recordings, a record label
• "Blackhole", a song by Beck on the album Mellow Gold
• "Black Hole", a song by Ana Johnsson on the album The Way I Am
• "Black Hole", a song by Lindsay Lohan from the album A Little More Personal (Raw)
• Blackhole (band), a British hardcore punk band

Other

• Black hole approach illusion, a visual illusion
• The Black Hole, the stadium location for the most devoted and rowdiest fans of the Oakland Raiders

See also

• Micro black hole (also mini black hole or quantum mechanical black hole), a black hole on a quantum level or with quantum effects