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is there any planes to send a probe or any thing through a black hole?
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- 5 years agoFavorite Answer
The nearest black hole to us is so remote that it would take hundreds of thousands to millions of years to reach it. So, right now, no...
They *are* putting together a conglomeration of telescopes - both radio scopes and those that use light called the "EHT" - the Event Horizon Telescope; They were hoping to view a gas cloud enter the black hole at the center of our galaxy a year and half ago; The gas cloud (called G2) was moving in that direction, but it apparently isn't going to be consumed.... The telescopes when used as one created a virtual telescope about as wide as the Earth, with a resolution fine enough to see down to the edge of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy... (Unfortunately, there wasn't much to see...) but, this was the best "probe" we've had so far.
Until 'faster than light' propulsion becomes available - we're prisoners of distance.
- Anonymous5 years ago
No, for several reasons.
1. Black holes are in space, planes can't fly in space.
2. The nearest black hole is over 3000 light years away, it would take hundreds of thousands of years to get there.
3. Nothing can escape a black hole so the probe would not be able to send back any information.
- PaulaLv 75 years ago
On Star Gate ... yes
Science fiction is full of such stuff.
Here in the real world there is no way to investigate black holes.
The nearest one known is more than 1,000 light years away. Might as well be a billion. Because we have no way of even traveling 1 light year -- and with our present rockets that would take 10,000 years.
Plus ... as far as we know, things can go into a black hole, but nothing - even radio signals) can ever come out. So what happens inside a black hole is likely to remain a mystery for ever.
- ?Lv 75 years ago
Sending a probe into a black hole would be a useless endeavour as the probe could not get out nor could it send out any information as light can't even get out so no hope of radio waves making it out.
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- Anonymous5 years ago
"Is there any [plans] to send a probe or [anything] through a black hole?"
No serious plans currently. The closest black hole is 2800 light years away, it will take us several lifetimes to even get to the nearest star (at 4 light years).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_blac...
Additionally, we know that anything that is sent into a black hole, will never come out again whole/integral, and cannot communicate with us outside the event horizon, so there is no need to throw anything in that is not deadly dangerous or toxic.
- 5 years ago
No. Black holes are incredibly far away (Even the one in the galactic centre). But for the sake of it, if a plane got a tiny bit close the tides and gravity of the black hole would stretch it and keep stretching the plane, until it it is a hot stream of plasma 1 atom wide. Nothing can 'survive' a black hole.
- ?Lv 75 years ago
The nearest Black Hole to us is 1.800 Light years from us
There are no plans to even send a probe to our closest Exo Star System, Alpha Centauri 4.5 Light years away.
In Physics, or even Mathematically it appears that light speed is infinitely impossible
To anyone who has even the slightest concept of what that means, the computer says "no"
Source(s): Smoke me a Kipper, I'll be back for Breakfast. E=Mc^2 - ?Lv 55 years ago
No.
There aren't any close enough, for one, and for another, no probe we could create could survive the environment.