Its event horizon, the outer edge inside which not even light can escape from the black hole's gravitational pull, would be only about 7.5 million kilometres.

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The notion that no information except the official kind can escape the legal-gravitational black hole of the Daytona Speedway is absurd.

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Aaron Craft scored nine points on 2-for-12 shooting for the Buckeyes, who dug a hole too deep to escape with their second-half rally.

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It was the housing market that helped pull the US economy into the black hole it has yet to escape from nearly three years later.

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Black holes are notoriously difficult to study, since so much in astronomy depends on the detection of light - and within a certain distance from a black hole, even that cannot escape.

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In some mazes, a picture of a piece of cheese sat outside the exit, next to a hole in the wall where the mouse could escape.

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If remote sellers have found a temporary "hole" in state sales tax laws to escape the collection of sales taxes, it is simply the responsibility of legislators to plug it.

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There was also a fine water escape on Sunday, as Matt Every eagled the par-four third hole despite having his feet planted in the hazard.

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Either my deafening message tears an excruciating gash in your conscious mind or I am a black hole of virile taciturnity from which no message, conscious or unconscious, may escape.

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