Black hole (disambiguation)

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing – no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light – can escape from it.

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
• A storage engine provided by MySQL data

Film and television

• The Black Hole (1979 film), a 1979 science fiction film
• Black Holes (film), a 1995 film
• The Black Hole (2006 film), a science fiction film
• Black Hole (2015 film), a documentary film
• The Black Hole (2016 film), a 2016 science fiction thriller
• Black Hole (House), a 2010 episode of House

Games

• Black Hole (pinball), a 1981 pinball machine manufactured by Gottlieb
• Black Hole (1981 video game), an arcade game by TDS
• Blackhole (video game), a 2015 video game by FiolaSoft Studio
• Black Hole (2018 video game), a video game by Dufgames
• Black Hole (solitaire), a solitaire card game
• Black Hole Entertainment, a video game developer
• Black Hole (board game), a 1978 two-player space combat game published by Metagaming Concepts
• A faction in the Advance Wars games

Music

• Black Hole Recordings, a record label
• Blackhole (band), a British hardcore punk band
• The Black Hole (album), an album by Misty's Big Adventure
• "Black Hole" (song), a song by Griff from One Foot in Front of the Other, 2021
• "Blackhole", a song by Beck from Mellow Gold
• "Black Hole", a song by Band-Maid from Unseen World
• "Black Hole", a song by Ana Johnsson from The Way I Am
• "Black Hole", a song by Lindsay Lohan from A Little More Personal (Raw)
• "Black Hole", a song by Wussy from What Heaven Is Like

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
• A section of White Canyon, Utah

Other uses

• Black Hole (comics), a limited series comic by Charles Burns
• Black Hole (DC Comics), a fictional terrorist organization
• Black Hole (Kinnikuman), a character in the manga and anime Kinnikuman
• Black Hole (roller coaster), a (defunct) rollercoaster at Alton Towers
• A sensory illusion in aviation
• A surplus store in Los Alamos, New Mexico, operated by Ed Grothus
• An area of the home stadium of the Las Vegas Raiders

See also

• 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
• All pages with titles containing Black hole