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Future technology could one day allow a miniature, laser-propelled spacecraft — no heavier than a paperclip — to travel to a nearby black hole, according to a bold new proposal published on Thursday ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...

The black hole would have to be within 25 light years from Earth, and we haven’t seen one that close yet. That’s not stopping ...

The first interstellar mission to a black hole could be launched within 30 years - by a spacecraft no heavier than a ...

Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi has proposed a century-long mission to send a “paperclip-sized nanocraft” to a black hole using a ...

It may sound like the plot of a sci-fi film reaching a black hole with a spacecraft, but it turns out that the idea may not ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe – a reputation not helped by the difficulty of studying them.

The proposal is highly theoretical and likely will take at least several decades to realize, but if we’re hoping someday to ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

An ambitious plan to test extreme physics close to a black hole would involve a space probe weighing only a few grams, ...