# black hole

> place in a network where incoming traffic is silently discarded without informing the source

**Wikidata**: [Q880302](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q880302)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_(networking))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/black-hole-q880302


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)