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Black Vulcan
Black Vulcan: Hanna-Barbera-created electric superhero of the Super Friends (1977 onward), voiced by Buster Jones, built as a royalty-avoiding substitute for DC's Black Lightning.
Black vulture
The black vulture (Coragyps atratus), also called the American black vulture, is a sooty-black New World vulture that scavenges carrion across the Americas, from the southeastern United States to central Chile and Uruguay.
Black War
The Black War (1824–1831) was the violent frontier conflict in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) between Aboriginal nations and British colonists, ending in martial law, the Black Line campaign, forced removal to Wybalenna, and near-destruction of Tasmania's Indigenous population.
Black Warrant (TV series)
Black Warrant (ब्लैक वॉरंट) is a 2025 Hindi-language Netflix crime drama, seven episodes, created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh, based on Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury's 2019 memoir about Tihar Jail in the 1980s, starring Zahan Kapoor; season 2 was announced then postponed in 2025.
Black Warrior River
The Black Warrior River is a 178-mile river in west-central Alabama, the Tombigbee's primary tributary, formed by the Sipsey, Mulberry, and Locust Forks; its 6,276-square-mile watershed is Alabama's largest entirely in-state river system.
Black Watch
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), Am Freiceadan Dubh, was Scotland's senior Highland infantry regiment, raised in 1739 as the 42nd Foot and amalgamated into The Royal Regiment of Scotland as its 3rd Battalion in 2006.
Black Water (2007 film)
Black Water (2007 film): Australian survival thriller by David Nerlich and Andrew Traucki, based on true events, in which three tourists are stranded in a mangrove swamp by a crocodile; made for about $1.2 million, sold to 76 countries, distinct from the American film Blackwater (2007).
Black Water (2018 film)
Black Water is a 2018 action thriller directed by Pasha Patriki, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a CIA operative imprisoned on a submarine black site.
Black water (drink)
Black water is bottled alkaline water containing fulvic acid and mineral additives that turn it naturally black, first sold in 2011 by Blackwater and blk. and marketed as a health supplement.
Black Wednesday
Black Wednesday, also known as the ERM crisis, was 16 September 1992, when Britain's defense of sterling's fixed exchange rate collapsed and the pound was allowed to float.
Black White Forest (黑白森林)
Black White Forest (黑白森林) is a 2024 Tencent Video Chinese crime-suspense web drama, 28 episodes, directed by Zhao Junkai, third in his Black & White series, starring Ding Yuxi, Ning Li, and Han Xue in a lost-pistol investigation.
Black Widow (2021 film)
Black Widow (2021) is the MCU Phase Four opener directed by Cate Shortland, starring Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh, released July 9, 2021 in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access, and prompting Johansson's $50 million lawsuit against Disney.
Black Widow (Chechnya)
Black Widows (Russian chernye vdovy) are Chechen female suicide bombers of the Second Chechen War, first active June 2000 via Khava Barayeva; known for Dubrovka, Beslan, and the 2010 Moscow metro attacks.
Black Widow (Iggy Azalea song)
"Black Widow" is a 2014 song by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora, the fifth single from The New Classic. Written partly by Katy Perry for Prism, produced by Stargate; peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 in the UK.
Black Widow (Marvel Comics)
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff, Наталия Альяновна Романова), Marvel Comics spy and Avenger, debuted in Tales of Suspense #52 (April 1964) by Lee, Rico, and Heck; Red Room-trained, Super-Soldier serum-enhanced, with 30,000-volt Widow's Bite gauntlets, distinct from the 1940 Golden Age namesake.
Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)
Black Widow (Чёрная вдова), Natalia Alianovna Romanova, aka Natasha Romanoff: Marvel Comics spy-superheroine debuting in Tales of Suspense #52 (April 1964), Red Room-trained, Super-Soldier-serum-enhanced, later an Avenger and clone-body hero.
Black Widow (video game)
Black Widow is Atari's 1982 color vector arcade twin-stick shooter, also known as a Gravitar conversion kit, in which a spider defends a web from insects using two joysticks; remade as Black Widow: Recharged in 2021.
Black widow optimization algorithm
The Black Widow Optimization Algorithm (BWO) is a population-based metaheuristic for continuous nonlinear optimization, introduced by Hayyolalam and Pourhaji Kazem in 2020 and defined by a cannibalism stage that culls poor solutions.
Black widow pulsar
A black widow pulsar is a millisecond pulsar whose high-energy wind heats and slowly evaporates its very low-mass companion star; the first, PSR B1957+20, was discovered in 1988.
Black wolf
Black wolf: a melanistic color variant of the gray wolf (Canis lupus), caused by a dominant K-locus (CBD103) mutation from domestic dogs. About half of Yellowstone's wolves are black; the variant is rare in Europe and linked to distemper resistance.
Black Zombie
Black Zombie is a 2026 Canadian documentary by Maya Annik Bedward tracing the zombie from Haitian Vodou and slavery through Seabrook's 1929 Magic Island, White Zombie (1932), and Night of the Living Dead to Hollywood, released by Kino Lorber.
Black-and-tan faction
The Black-and-tan faction was the biracial wing of the post-Reconstruction Southern Republican Party, opposing the lily-white faction; led by figures like Norris Wright Cuney and Powell Clayton, it lost most state parties by the early twentieth century.
Black-and-white
Black-and-white photography is a general designation for processes producing gray or sepia tones. The daguerreotype was the first public process in 1839, followed by gelatin silver in the 1880s.
Black-backed jackal
Black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas, formerly Canis mesomelas), a medium-sized African canid with a dark dorsal saddle, in two populations over 1,000 km apart; Least Concern, monogamous, livestock-conflict species.
Black-billed magpie
Black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia), also called Urraca de Hudson, a long-tailed black-and-white corvid of western North America; omnivorous ground forager, tick-picker on large mammals, IUCN Least Concern with about 6 million birds.
Black-body radiation
Black-body radiation, also called Planck radiation, is the electromagnetic radiation emitted by an idealized body that absorbs all radiation falling on it, depending only on temperature.
Black-box optimization
Black-box optimization, also called derivative-free or zeroth-order optimization, is a class of numerical methods that optimizes functions known only through sampled values, using methods like Bayesian optimization and CMA-ES.
Black-box testing
Black-box testing is a software testing method that examines an application's functionality without knowledge of its internal structures, using techniques such as equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis.
Black-capped chickadee
Black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), Mésange à tête noire, a small North American Paridae songbird with black cap and bib, caching thousands of seeds, and a northward-moving hybrid zone with the Carolina chickadee.
Black-crowned night heron
Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), also called night heron or ʻaukuʻu in Hawaii, is a stocky nocturnal heron of Ardeidae, the world's most widespread heron, IUCN Least Concern with 440,000–1,990,000 mature individuals but declining regionally.