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What does blackhole mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word blackhole? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Alternative spelling of black hole, especially when attributive.
  2. (Internet) A place where traffic is silently discarded.
  3. (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
  4. (computing) DNSBL, used to block spamming IP addresses – are often called "blackhole lists"
  5. (Internet) A blackhole server, a DNS server that handles reverse lookups of invalid IP ranges
  6. (management) A resource sink.
Verb
  1. (Internet) To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard incoming traffic.
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