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Journey to a black hole? An innovative, epic mission concept

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Could we ever travel to a black hole? Would a spacecraft even be able to survive once it got there? It sounds like a plot from science fiction, but a researcher in China said it might be possible. Cosimo Bambi at Fudan University in China said on August 7, 2025, that a tiny spacecraft consisting of only a microchip with the weight of a paperclip could reach a nearby black hole in about 70 years. A laser beam from Earth would propel it through deep space at 1/3 the speed of light. Although such a mission isn’t possible right now, the estimate is that it could be possible 20-30 years from now.