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Black Arrow
Black Arrow was a British three-stage satellite launch rocket developed from 1964 by the Royal Aircraft Establishment; in 1971 it made the United Kingdom the sixth nation to launch its own satellite.
Black arsenic
Black arsenic is a metastable semiconductor allotrope of arsenic, layered like black phosphorus, with a direct bandgap of about 0.3 eV and better air stability.
Black arsenic phosphorus
Black arsenic phosphorus, abbreviated b-AsP, is a two-dimensional layered semiconductor alloy of black phosphorus and arsenic, introduced in 2015. Its main use is mid-infrared photodetectors that operate at room temperature.
Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM), coined by Larry Neal, was the cultural wing of Black Power, roughly 1965-1976, founded around Amiri Baraka's Harlem theater, producing Black art for Black audiences across poetry, drama, music, and photography.
Black Arts Movement and creative music
The Black Arts Movement and creative music refers to African American avant-garde jazz collectives of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Black Artists' Group and UGMAA, that applied cultural self-determination to music.
Black Assarca shipwreck
The Black Assarca shipwreck is a Byzantine-Aksumite-period shipwreck off Black Assarca island in the Massawa Channel, Eritrea, dated to roughly the fifth to seventh centuries AD.
Black Bag
Black Bag is a 2025 American spy drama directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by David Koepp, and starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married British intelligence agents.
Black Bag (novel)
Black Bag is a 2026 comic campus novel by British poet-novelist Luke Kennard, published by John Murray (UK, 12 March 2026) and Zando (US, 17 March 2026), shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026; its plot reworks Charles Goetzinger's 1967 Oregon State bag-wearing experiment.
Black Ball Camp
Black Ball Camp (Black Ball or British Camp) is an Iron Age univallate hillslope enclosure on Gallox Hill, Dunster, Somerset, 100 by 80 m, scheduled monument 1007668, possibly an outwork of Bat's Castle hillfort.
Black Bart (outlaw)
Black Bart was the alias of Charles E. Boles, an American stagecoach robber who held up 28 Wells Fargo stages in Northern California and southern Oregon between 1875 and 1883.
Black Bazaar
Black Bazaar is a 2009 novel by the Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou about a Congolese immigrant in Paris, a dandy nicknamed Fessologue, who discovers writing after his companion leaves him.
Black bean aphid
Black bean aphid (Aphis fabae), a dark purplish-black aphid pest of faba bean, common bean, and sugar beet; host-alternates via Euonymus europaeus, vectors BCMV, BCMNV, CMV, and beet viruses, causing bean yield losses up to 90% in East Africa.
Black Bear (film)
Black Bear (2020 film), Lawrence Michael Levine's meta drama starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, and Sarah Gadon; Sundance premiere January 24, 2020, two-part film-within-a-film structure, Momentum Pictures release December 4, 2020.
Black Beatles
"Black Beatles" is a 2016 hip-hop single by Mississippi duo Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane, produced by Mike WiLL Made-It and their first Billboard Hot 100 number one.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty (1877), Anna Sewell's only novel, subtitled The Autobiography of a Horse, narrates a working horse's life in Victorian England; it sold millions, spurred horse-welfare reform including the bearing-rein controversy, and founded the animal-autobiography genre.
Black Beauty (1994 film)
Black Beauty (1994) is Caroline Thompson's Warner Bros. adaptation of Anna Sewell's 1877 novel, the first film version told from the horse's first-person view, voiced by Alan Cumming, released July 29, 1994, rated G, grossing $4.2 million.
Black Beauty (2020 film)
Black Beauty (2020) is a Disney+ original drama, a modern reimagining of Anna Sewell's novel directed by Ashley Avis, with Kate Winslet voicing a wild mustang mare and Mackenzie Foy as Jo Green; released November 27, 2020, shot in South Africa, mixed reviews (RT 47%, Metacritic 52).
Black Belt (geological formation)
The Black Belt is a crescent of dark, clayey, alkaline soils across central Alabama and northeastern Mississippi, formed over the Upper Cretaceous Selma Chalk; its native Blackland Prairie has shrunk to under 1 percent, now under active restoration.
Black belt (martial arts)
Black belt (martial arts): dan-grade rank marker from Jigoro Kano's Kodokan judo (1880s), with colored intermediate belts added by Koizumi (1926) and Kawaishi (1935); adopted by karate, taekwondo, and BJJ.
Black Betty
Black Betty (Roud 11668) is a traditional African-American work song of disputed meaning, first recorded by James "Iron Head" Baker in 1933 and Lead Belly in 1939, best known from Ram Jam's 1977 hit arranged by Bill Bartlett, later boycotted by NAACP and CORE and now a sports chant.
Black billionaires
Black billionaires are people Forbes identifies as Black worth at least $1 billion; Forbes counted 27 in 2026, led by the Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote.
Black Bird (miniseries)
Black Bird is a 2022 six-episode Apple TV+ true-crime limited series created by Dennis Lehane from James Keene's memoir In With the Devil, starring Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ray Liotta; Hauser won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
Black bloc
Black bloc: a masked, all-black protest tactic, not an organization, originating with West Berlin squatters (Schwarzer Block, 1980) and the Autonomen; famous for Seattle 1999, Genoa 2001, and swarming property damage.
Black body
A black body is an idealized object that absorbs all incident radiation and re-emits a spectrum depending only on its temperature; Max Planck's 1900 explanation introduced quantum mechanics.
Black Bolt
Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) is a Marvel Comics superhero, king of the Inhumans, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (Fantastic Four #45, 1965). His voice, tied to his brain's speech center, is so destructive he is functionally mute; notable arcs include Infinity's Terrigen bomb and his 2017 solo series.
Black Book (film)
Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 World War II thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Carice van Houten as a Jewish singer who joins the Dutch Resistance.
Black Books
Black Books is a Channel 4 British sitcom (2000–2004, 18 episodes, 3 series) created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan, starring Moran as misanthropic bookseller Bernard Black with Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig; it won BAFTA Situation Comedy awards in 2001 and 2005.
Black box
Black box testing, also called specification-based testing, is a software testing method that judges an application's outputs against its specification through the interface alone, without access to the source code or internal design.
Black Box (2020 film)
Black Box (2020) is a psychological horror-thriller, the feature debut of director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., starring Mamoudou Athie and Phylicia Rashad. Released October 6, 2020 on Prime Video in the Welcome to the Blumhouse anthology, it follows an amnesiac father whose experimental memory treatment unravels his identity; 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 62.
Black Box (2026 film)
Black Box (Black Box: Flight 298; Russian: Рейс 298) is a 2026 horror sci-fi thriller directed by Steven Quale, written by Stephen Susco, starring Tom Brittney; Vero Airlines Flight 298 faces supernatural terror; 70% Tomatometer, $521,167 gross.