Black Hole is a common name for a ride that is a combination of two popular ride types, the roller coaster and the dark ride.
The ride may take place either in pitch darkness (e.g. the now-defunct Black Hole at Alton Towers) or in near-darkness with ultraviolet or similar lighting effects (e.g. the Space Invader at Blackpool Pleasure Beach). Some black-hole rides are purpose-built, most famously the Space Mountain rides at various Disney parks, while others are modifications of standard coasters (e.g. the Alton Towers Black Hole was a Schwarzkopf Jet Star enclosed in a light-tight building).
Famous quotes containing the words black and/or hole:
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But it may well be called poor mortals’ plague:
For, like a pestilence, it doth infect
The houses of the brain ...
Till not a thought, or motion, in the mind,
Be free from the black poison of suspect.”
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)
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—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)