Editing Black hole (section)

=== Etymology ===
Science writer Marcia Bartusiak traces the term "black hole" to physicist [[Robert H. Dicke]], who in the early 1960s reportedly compared the phenomenon to the [[Black Hole of Calcutta]], notorious as a prison where people entered but never left alive.
The term "black hole" was used in print by ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' and ''[[Science News]]'' magazines in 1963, and by science journalist Ann Ewing in her article {{" '}}Black Holes' in Space", dated 18 January 1964, which was a report on a meeting of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] held in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref name=Bartusiak>{{Cite book |last=Bartusiak |first=Marcia |title=Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved |date=2015 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-21363-8 |location=New Haven, CT}}</ref>

In December 1967, a student reportedly suggested the phrase "black hole" at a lecture by [[John Archibald Wheeler|John Wheeler]];<ref name=Bartusiak/> Wheeler adopted the term for its brevity and "advertising value", and it quickly caught on,<ref>{{cite news |title=Pioneering Physicist John Wheeler Dies at 96 |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pioneering-physicist-john-wheeler-dies/ |access-date=27 November 2016 |work=[[Scientific American]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128050759/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pioneering-physicist-john-wheeler-dies/ |archive-date=28 November 2016}}</ref> leading some to credit Wheeler with coining the phrase.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Overbye |first1=Dennis |title=John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term 'Black Hole,' Is Dead at 96 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/science/14wheeler.html |access-date=27 November 2016 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 April 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122210005/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/science/14wheeler.html |archive-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>