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Scientist's Plan to Visit a Black Hole in 100 Years Is Wild. It Might Also Work

by Bluestein on 8/7/25, 5:17 PM with 1 comments

• by armchairhacker on 8/7/25, 6:15 PM

  > It may be possible for a swarm of ultralight nanocrafts—propelled by a laser and traveling at a third of the speed of light—to make it to a black hole within about a century.

  > For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 light-years from Earth, and none so close have been observed yet.