# 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
* A descrambling device for cable television piracy

### 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
* A name used to refer to the first thirty games released on the Nintendo Entertainment System

## 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'
* BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA, a song by American musician Will Wood

## Other uses

* 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)