Black hole

Quality:

Black hole - astronomical object so massive, that anything falling into it, including light, cannot escape its gravity. Article “Black hole” in Simple English Wikipedia has 72.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Ukrainian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 713^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 162^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 536^th most popular in all topics.

The 333^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 439^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2096^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2108^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Black hole”, its content was written by 182 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (162^nd place) and edited by 9205 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (333^rd place).

The article is cited 122 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 18965 times in all languages (9124^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #12 in March 2010
• Global: #9 in April 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #71 in May 2012
• Global: #12 in April 2019

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Ukrainian (uk) Чорна діра		100
2	Arabic (ar) ثقب أسود		97.2687
3	Hindi (hi) कृष्ण विवर		96.6567
4	Vietnamese (vi) Lỗ đen		96.6467
5	Portuguese (pt) Buraco negro		95.3098
6	Indonesian (id) Lubang hitam		95.1055
7	Korean (ko) 블랙홀		95.0881
8	Basque (eu) Zulo beltz		95
9	English (en) Black hole		94.7136
10	Persian (fa) سیاه‌چاله		91.8236

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black hole		48 626 947
2	Spanish (es) Agujero negro		12 217 122
3	Russian (ru) Чёрная дыра		10 106 655
4	Japanese (ja) ブラックホール		9 165 313
5	German (de) Schwarzes Loch		7 210 512
6	French (fr) Trou noir		4 781 703
7	Italian (it) Buco nero		3 976 312
8	Portuguese (pt) Buraco negro		3 888 136
9	Polish (pl) Czarna dziura		3 211 457
10	Chinese (zh) 黑洞		3 147 434

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black hole		136 683
2	Russian (ru) Чёрная дыра		23 062
3	German (de) Schwarzes Loch		17 229
4	Japanese (ja) ブラックホール		15 175
5	Spanish (es) Agujero negro		11 514
6	French (fr) Trou noir		9 541
7	Polish (pl) Czarna dziura		6 574
8	Italian (it) Buco nero		6 412
9	Chinese (zh) 黑洞		6 044
10	Persian (fa) سیاه‌چاله		4 360

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black hole		2 007
2	German (de) Schwarzes Loch		741
3	French (fr) Trou noir		606
4	Spanish (es) Agujero negro		463
5	Russian (ru) Чёрная дыра		422
6	Italian (it) Buco nero		378
7	Dutch (nl) Zwart gat		324
8	Chinese (zh) 黑洞		253
9	Japanese (ja) ブラックホール		252
10	Portuguese (pt) Buraco negro		251

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Agujero negro		6
2	Dutch (nl) Zwart gat		6
3	Persian (fa) سیاه‌چاله		5
4	Russian (ru) Чёрная дыра		5
5	English (en) Black hole		4
6	French (fr) Trou noir		3
7	Indonesian (id) Lubang hitam		2
8	Arabic (ar) ثقب أسود		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Черна дупка		1
10	Catalan (ca) Forat negre		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information