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.

Black hole may also refer to:

Computing

  • Black hole (networking), in computer networking, a place where traffic is silently discarded
  • Blackhole server, a DNS server that handles reverse lookups of invalid IP ranges
  • Blackhole, a storage engine provided by MySQL data

Film and television

Games

Music

Places

  • Black Hole of Calcutta, a dungeon in which many British troops and various civilians allegedly died in 1756
  • Black Hole of Hong Kong, a prison cell in which 47 Chinese men were detained for three weeks during the Esing Bakery incident of 1857
  • The Black Hole, a section of White Canyon, Utah

Other uses

See also

  • bit bucket, in computer programming, a place of permanent oblivion for data
  • Blackhole exploit kit, used to install malware on victims' computers
  • DNSBL (DNS-based Black Hole List), a list used to block spamming IP addresses
  • Micro black hole, a black hole on a quantum level or with quantum effects
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