The present invention provides a family of dark quenchers, termed Black Hole Quenchers ("BHQs"), that are efficient quenchers of excited state energy but which are themselves substantially non-fluorescent. Also provided are methods of using the BHQs, probes incorporating the BHQs and methods of using the probes.

 
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