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Blackest Night
Blackest Night is DC Comics' 2009-2010 crossover event by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, in which Black Hand and Nekron raise dead heroes as the Black Lantern Corps; it concluded the War of Light and led into Brightest Day.
Blackface
Blackface, also known as blackface minstrelsy, is theatrical makeup in which performers darken their faces with burnt cork to caricature Black people, flourishing in 19th-century America.
Blackfeet Nation
The Blackfeet Nation, also known as the Blackfeet Tribe, is a federally recognized Indian tribe in northwestern Montana, one of the 10 largest in the United States.
Blackfin
Blackfin is a family of 16/32-bit fixed-point embedded processors from Analog Devices, introduced in 2000, that combines digital signal processing and microcontroller functions in a single architecture.
BlackFin Capital Partners
BlackFin Capital Partners is a Paris-based, AMF-regulated investment firm founded in 2009, managing about €4 billion across buyouts of asset-light financial-services firms and venture stakes in European fintech.
Blackfire (DC Comics)
Blackfire (Princess Komand'r) is a DC Comics supervillain, elder sister of Starfire of Tamaran; created by Wolfman and Pérez, first appearing in The New Teen Titans #22 (1982), she cannot fly, absorbs stellar energy, and betrayed Tamaran to the Citadel.
Blackfish (film)
Blackfish (2013) is Gabriela Cowperthwaite's documentary about the orca Tilikum and SeaWorld, distinct from the Utrecht clothing store BLACKFISH and other namesakes; it sparked the "Blackfish effect" against orca captivity.
Blackfoot (band)
Blackfoot, also known as Rick Medlocke and Blackfoot, is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida, best known as a southern hard rock act.
Blackfoot Confederacy
The Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksikaitsitapi, Niitsitapi) is a group of four Blackfoot-speaking nations: Siksika, Kainai (Blood), Piikani in Alberta, and Aamskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet) in Montana, signatories of Treaty 7 (1877) and united since the 2000 Declaration.
Blackfoot language
Blackfoot (Niitsi'powahsin, Siksikai'powahsini) is the westernmost Algonquian language, spoken in southern Alberta and northern Montana; polysynthetic, severely endangered, with active community revitalization programs.
Blackfoot oral literature
Blackfoot oral literature is the body of stories, songs, and teachings passed down by speech among the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) peoples of Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.
Blackforestwave
Blackforestwave: standing river-surfing wave in the Metzelgraben canal, Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, run by blackforestwave e.V. since 2021; 4.5 m wide, pump-free, lowerable, ~80,000 euros, rebuilt as blackforestwave 2.0 from 2026.
Blackfriars, London
Blackfriars is a riverside district of the City of London named for Dominican friars who built a priory there in 1276. It centers on Blackfriars station, the only London station spanning the Thames, and Blackfriars Bridge.
Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2
Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2, an upcoming Hinterland Studio first-person survival RPG sequel to The Long Dark, set in Harmont one year after the Aurora, adding co-op, Will to Live, and Permalife; Early Access planned for 2027.
Blackgaze
Blackgaze, also known as blackened shoegaze, is a fusion genre combining black metal techniques like blast beats and shrieked vocals with the layered, reverb-drenched guitars of shoegaze.
BlackGEM
BlackGEM is an array of three 65-cm optical survey telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, built to find the visible light from neutron-star mergers detected by gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO.
Blackhat (film)
Blackhat is Michael Mann's 2015 cybercrime thriller, written by Morgan Davis Foehl, starring Chris Hemsworth as furloughed hacker Nicholas Hathaway hunting a network behind a nuclear plant hack and soy futures manipulation; a $70 million film that grossed $7.8 million in the US.
Blackheart
Blackheart is a Marvel Comics demon, son of Mephisto, created from the sins of Christ's Crown, New York; debuting in Daredevil #270 (1989), he is a Ghost Rider enemy, former King of Hell, and 2007 film villain.
Blackheath F.C.
Blackheath F.C. (Blackheath Rugby), founded 1858 by old boys of Blackheath Proprietary School, is the oldest open rugby union club in continuous existence; FA founder that withdrew in 1863, RFU founder 1871, now in the Champ at Well Hall, Eltham.
Blackheath, London
Blackheath is a southeast London district in Lewisham and Greenwich boroughs, centred on an open heath and a village of Georgian and Victorian buildings; a 1968 conservation area, historic gathering place, and site of a contested station car park housing scheme.
Blackhillock (energy storage)
Blackhillock Battery Energy Storage System is a grid-scale battery site near Keith in Moray, Scotland, developed and operated by Zenobē, with its first 200 MW phase live since March 2025.
Blackhorn Ventures Industrial Impact
Blackhorn Ventures Industrial Impact is the fund family of Blackhorn Ventures, a Denver, Colorado venture capital firm founded in 2017 that backs Series Seed and Series A industrial software companies.
Blackhouse
A blackhouse (Gaelic taigh-dubh) is a traditional dwelling of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, built with double drystone walls and a chimneyless thatched roof; most surviving examples stand on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
Blackie Lawless
Blackie Lawless, stage name of Steven Edward Duren, is the American heavy metal founder, singer, and guitarist of W.A.S.P. (formed 1982, Los Angeles), famous for the PMRC-targeted single Animal (Fuck Like a Beast), shock rock stage shows, and later Christian-era concept albums.
Blackjack
Blackjack, also called Twenty-One (Vingt-et-Un), is a casino banking card game against the dealer. Basic strategy cuts the house edge to about 0.5%; card counting can give players a 0.5-1.5% advantage.
Blackjack Mulligan
Blackjack Mulligan, the ring name of Robert Deroy Windham (1941/1942–2016), was an American professional wrestler, a 6-foot-9 outlaw-style heavyweight best known as half, with Blackjack Lanza, of The Blackjacks.
BlacKkKlansman
BlacKkKlansman: 2018 Spike Lee film, based on Ron Stallworth's memoir Black Klansman, about a Black Colorado Springs detective infiltrating the KKK; Cannes Grand Prix winner starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.
Blackletter
Blackletter, also called Gothic script or Old English, is the family of dense, broken-pen scripts and typefaces from twelfth-century Europe, subdividing into textura, rotunda, schwabacher, and fraktur; it set Gutenberg's 1455 Bible and remained German printing's standard until a 1941 ban.
Blacklight
A blacklight, also known as a Wood's lamp, is a lamp emitting long-wave ultraviolet radiation in the UV-A band, which makes fluorescent materials glow, used in forensics and dermatology.
Blacklight (film)
Blacklight (2022) is a Mark Williams action thriller starring Liam Neeson as FBI fixer Travis Block, who exposes the secret Operation Unity program. Filmed in Melbourne and Canberra, it earned $16 million worldwide and 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.