English-Finnish translations for black hole

musta aukkoSe on musta aukko, johon me syydämme rahaa. It is a black hole that we pour money into. Tässä asiassa on vain yksi musta aukko: neuvoston hiljaisuus. There is only one black hole in this affair: the silence of the Council. Neuvosto on eurooppalaisen demokratian akilleenkantapää, ellei peräti sen musta aukko. The Council is the Achilles heel of European democracy, if not the black hole.

A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
A gravitationally domineering celestial body with an event horizon from which even light cannot escape; the most dense material in the universe, condensed into a singularity, usually formed by a collapsing massive star.
A void into which things disappear, or from which nothing emerges; an impenetrable area or subject; an area impervious to communication.
A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded
A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data
To redirect nowhere; to discard (incoming traffic

One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole list maintained on a blackhole server.

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