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Astrophysicist Proposes Interstellar Mission to Study Black Holes


In a new paper published in the journal iScience, an astrophysicist from Fudan University discusses the possibility of sending a nanocraft to a black hole at 20-25 light-years from Earth to test the nature of the compact object and fundamental physics in strong gravitational fields.

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