Black hole

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In networking, a black hole or sinkhole is a place in the network where incoming or outgoing traffic is discarded or "dropped" without informing the source that the data did not reach its intended recipient.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Black hole (networking)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia