Black box (disambiguation)

A black box is a device, object, or system whose inner workings are unknown; only the "stimuli inputs" and "output reactions" are known characteristics.

Black box may also refer to:

Science and technology

 * Black box (phreaking), a device to defeat telephone toll charges
 * Eucalyptus largiflorens, a tree species with the common name black box

Transportation

 * Accident data recorder, an optional vehicle installable device to record information related to (near) traffic accidents
 * Event data recorder, a device installed in some automobiles to record information related to vehicle crashes or accidents
 * Flight recorder, an aircraft-borne device used in disaster investigation, consisting of a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder
 * Flight operations quality assurance
 * Quick access recorder
 * Train event recorder, a device that records data about the operation of train controls and performance
 * Voyage data recorder, a device designed to collect data from various sensors on board a ship

Computing

 * Black box theory, a systems engineering theory for black boxes
 * Black-box testing, a form of software testing that involves adjusting inputs to an application without reference to the source code of the application
 * Blackbox, a window manager that works on X Window System platforms
 * BlackBox Component Builder, software development environment for Component Pascal
 * Sun Modular Datacenter, prototype name Project Blackbox

Medicine

 * Any of a number of devices developed and sold by Albert Abrams, based on the pseudo-science of radionics
 * Black box warning, a type of warning that may be applied to medicines in the United States

Film and television

 * Black Box (1978 film), an American short film by Scott B and Beth B
 * Black Box (2002 film), an Argentine drama film (Caja Negra)
 * Black Box (2013 film), an American drama film
 * Black Box (2020 film), an American science-fiction horror film
 * Black Box (2021 film), a Franco-Belgian mystery thriller film
 * Black Box (TV series), a 2014 ABC television series
 * Black Box (The Outer Limits), an episode from the 1995 revival of that TV series
 * Survival in the Sky, a TV series on the investigations of aviation accidents known as Black Box in the UK
 * The Black Box (2005 film), a French mystery film
 * The Black Box (serial), a 1915 film serial
 * Black Box (video magazine), a Hungarian documentary video magazine and filmmaking group

Games

 * Black Box (game), board and computer game
 * Blackbox (video game), an iOS puzzle game
 * EA Black Box, the video game studio formerly known as Black Box Games
 * The Black Box, a canceled video game; See The Orange Box

Literature

 * Black Box (short story), a short story by Jennifer Egan
 * Black Box (novel), by Israeli writer Amos Oz
 * Black Box (comics) a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe
 * Black Box, a novel by Mario Giordano
 * Black Box, a memoir by Shiori Itō
 * Blackbox (novel) by Nick Walker
 * The Black Box (novel) by Michael Connelly
 * La boîte noire ("The Black Box"), a Spirou et Fantasio comic album

Music

 * Black Box (band), Italian electro-dance music group
 * "Black Box" (song), debut single of Australian Idol winner Stan Walker
 * A Black Box, an album by Peter Hammill
 * Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years, a Wax Tax Box set album
 * Black Box (Brown Eyed Girls album), album by South Korean group Brown Eyed Girls
 * Black Box (Naked City album), compilation album by Naked City
 * Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978, a Black Sabbath album
 * The Black Box (album), a box set album by Danish rock band Gasolin'

Other uses

 * Black box (fiction), a fiction trope
 * Black box theater, simple unadorned performance space
 * Nuclear football, the briefcase that accompanies the President of the United States and contains nuclear missile launch codes, nicknamed "Black Box"
 * Censor bars
 * Black box trading or algorithmic trading
 * Black Box Corporation, a supplier of computer network hardware based in Mumbai, India and Dallas, Texas
 * Black box approach to the function of states in international relations in theories such as realism and neorealism
 * BlackBox (radio station), a radio station in Bordeaux, France
 * Black Box (Handcuff Cover)