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Someone writes a paper using the terminology, others refer to it, and it sticks.

• willis936 7y ago
  Considering "weakly interacting" is already a very stuck name. By most accounts these are typical black holes, which do not interact weakly, let alone not at all. I don't think this name will stick.
  • greglindahl 7y ago
    "quiescent" is already in wide use referring to black holes, and "quiescent" appears in the 2nd paragraph of this paper. Some stellar binary systems are called "interacting".
    • fhars 7y ago
      And according to the full title of the paper, it is not the black hole that is noninteracting, it is the binary system.