The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

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In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

An interstellar mission to a black hole may sound impossibly bold, yet a new concept by astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan ...

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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 ...

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

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

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Supermassive black holes might secretly be smashing particles at energies beyond our best labs, offering a new path to discover dark matter without building a giant collider.