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- From: mcdowell@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
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- Subject: Re: Know an adjective for black holes?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.152116.28296@head-cfa.harvard.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:21:16 GMT
- References: <BxvC4z.Mq9@javelin.sim.es.com>
- Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- From article <BxvC4z.Mq9@javelin.sim.es.com>, by biesel@javelin.sim.es.com (Heiner Biesel):
- [... what's a good adjective for black hole?]
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- In a paper in MNRAS (I think by Martin Rees about 15 years ago but
- I can't remember the reference) the analog to 'perigee', 'perihelion',
- etc. was suggested as 'peribothron' on the grounds that 'Bothros'
- was the name of a sort of Ancient Greek 'Black Hole of Calcutta'
- and came to mean 'a deep dark pit that you never get out of'.
- [I'm trying to cross-post this to sci.classics in case someone there
- can tell me whether this is true.]
- So perhaps 'bothronic' whould be a good adjective? I liked 'singular',
- as suggested by one poster, but it applies to other objects
- (like the Big Bang and some kinds of cosmological topological
- defects) so we need something more specific to BH's.
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