Black Star
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Black Star could mean the following;
- Black star is another name for the phenomenon known as dark stars or black holes.
- Black dwarf, a type of degenerate dwarf star, specifically, a cold white dwarf.
- As "Black Stars", the Ghana national football team.
- The Black Star Line, a shipping line created by Marcus Garvey to repatriate African-Americans to Africa.
- Black Star (hip hop group)
- Black Star (album), an album by the above group.
- Black Star (Babylon 5), ship in the Babylon 5 science fiction universe
- BlackStar, a 1981 fantasy/sci-fi cartoon by Filmation (thought of as the precursor of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon).
- BLACKSTAR is the title of a two-issue b&w comic book series published by Imperial Comics in 1987, with a story by Jim Jenkins and artwork by Brian Matthews and Phred. BLACKSTAR chronicles the adventures of Elinden freighter captain Doink Amtrac and his crew aboard the Blackstar, set against a future galactic history where humans have vanished after a conflict with the matriarchal Thrax. Amtrac has in his possession a human artifact - an oversized hand weapon that links psychically with its user - which makes him a dangerous little customer in the dangerous universe they inhabit.
- Blackstar (spaceplane), a rumoured USAF spaceplane
- Black Star (terrorist group), a Greek group also known as Mavro Asteri.
- A song by Radiohead on their 1995 album The Bends.
- A song by Yngwie Malmsteen on his 1984 album Rising Force.
- A double-hopped, pale beer originally brewed in Whitefish, Montana. It is available only in seven Western States.
- The former name of Sendit.com - an online video and DVD sales company based in the UK.
- The Chinese Type 54 pistol.