太空裡的那個天體
這一支就是畫面本身,沒有比喻。其他用法都是從這裡借畫面出去的。
noun · B2
An area in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that anything coming near it is pulled in and cannot get out again, not even light.
黑洞
You can picture a door that only opens one way. Things go in — light, letters, money — and nothing comes back out. You cannot even look inside to find out what happened to them.
The name appeared around 1960. Robert H. Dicke compared the object to the Black Hole of Calcutta, a cell people did not come back from; Hong-Yee Chiu recorded the remark. A journalist, Ann Ewing, put it in print in 1964, and a 1967 lecture by John Wheeler made it widely known.
這個名字在 1960 年前後出現。物理學家 Robert H. Dicke 把這種天體比成 Calcutta 的 Black Hole——一間關進去就出不來的囚室,Hong-Yee Chiu 記下了這個說法。1964 年記者 Ann Ewing 首次把它印在報導裡,1967 年 Wheeler 的演講讓它廣為流傳。有意思的是,「關人的黑牢」這個更早的用法,畫面上也正好是「進得去、出不來」。
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Two branches
太空裡的那個天體
這一支就是畫面本身,沒有比喻。其他用法都是從這裡借畫面出去的。
noun · B2
An area in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that anything coming near it is pulled in and cannot get out again, not even light.
黑洞
比喻:進去就沒有回來的地方
把天上的畫面搬到日常生活。差別只在「掉進去的是什麼」:如果是東西和消息,就是前一個意思;如果是錢,就是後一個。
noun · B2
A place, system or situation that things go into and never come out of, so you never get them back and you cannot find out what happened to them.
有去無回的地方