What Do You Call a Bunch of Black Holes: A Crush? A Scream?
There are pods of whales and gaggles of geese. Now astronomers are wondering which plural term would best suit the most enigmatic entity in the cosmos.
The galaxies NGC 5257 and NGC 5258, each anchored by supermassive black holes at their centers, located in the constellation Virgo, about 300 million light-years away.Credit...NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans
What do you call a black hole? Anything you want, the old joke goes, as long as you don’t call it late for dinner. Black holes, after all, are nothing but hungry.