English-French translations for black hole

• trou noir
  Nous laissons un trou noir dans les Balkans. We have left a black hole in the Balkans.
  Nous ne voulons certainement pas d'un trou noir en Europe. The last thing we want is a black hole in Europe.
  Le Zimbabwe est un pays qui a sombré dans un "trou noir". Zimbabwe is a country which has fallen into a 'black hole'.
• abîmé

Definition of 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

Examples

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

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