white hole
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
By analogy with black hole.
Noun[edit]
white hole (plural white holes)
- (astrophysics) A theoretically possible, but physically highly unlikely, singularity from which matter and energy are able to escape but unable to enter; the antithesis of a black hole.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, hole.
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singularity
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