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Even in high science, good names are<br />

vital. The ‘relativistic gravitationally<br />

collapsed massive object’ was<br />

discovered in 1916. But it<br />

didn’t grab the popular<br />

imagination until<br />

someone<br />

renamed it the<br />

‘black hole’<br />

in 1967.<br />

THE 17 KEYS TO CONSUMER<br />

UNDERSTANDING<br />

Names<br />

need to<br />

work across<br />

cultures: The<br />

1967 worldwide<br />

media frenzy<br />

around black holes<br />

was subdued in France<br />

because ‘trou noir’ was French<br />

slang at the time for ‘asshole’.

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