Black Sun, Granite sculpture in Volunteer Park, Seattle, US

Black Sun is a 1969 sculpture by Isamu Noguchi in Volunteer Park, Seattle, set on the eastern edge of the park's man-made reservoir, across from the Seattle Asian Art Museum. It is an assemblage of four arcs surrounding an ovoid opening, made of steel and aluminum and painted bright colors. The view from the sculpture includes the Space Needle, the Olympic Mountains and Elliott Bay.

Isamu Noguchi made Black Sun in 1969 as a public sculpture for Volunteer Park, where it stands on the eastern edge of the man-made reservoir. In 2000 the work entered the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the second sculpture by Noguchi to be so included.

The work's form recalls a torii, the gate at the entrance to a Shinto shrine, a Japanese reference Noguchi gave an abstract aluminium and steel structure. Visitors often link it to Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", though Chris Cornell said the title came from a misheard news broadcast.

The sculpture stands on the eastern edge of Volunteer Park's man-made reservoir, across from the Seattle Asian Art Museum, so approach from that side of the park to find it. The open ground around the reservoir lets you walk around the work and view it from several angles, with the Space Needle, Olympic Mountains and Elliott Bay in sight.

Soundgarden took their name from another Seattle outdoor artwork, A Sound Garden, and the resemblance of that title to Noguchi's Black Sun fed the false link. Chris Cornell traced "Black Hole Sun" to a misheard news broadcast instead.