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Ben Turner

Paperclip-sized spacecraft could visit a nearby black hole in the next century, study claims

Purple circular black hole.

An astrophysicist has made an ambitious proposal for how humanity could probe the extreme physics of black holes — by sending a spaceship no bigger than a paperclip to our nearest one.

The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather information on a nearby space-time rupture within the next century, according to the plan.

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