Bambi Cosimo
Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
School of Natural Sciences and Humanities, New Uzbekistan University, Tashkent 100007, Uzbekistan.
iScience. 2025 Aug 7;28(8):113142. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113142. eCollection 2025 Aug 15.
Black holes are the sources of the strongest gravitational fields that can be found today in the universe and are ideal laboratories for testing Einstein's theory of general relativity in the strong field regime. In this article, I show that the possibility of an interstellar mission to send a small spacecraft to the nearest black hole, although very speculative and extremely challenging, is not completely unrealistic. Certainly, we do not have the necessary technology today, but it may be available in the next 20-30 years. The mission may last 80-100 years, but we would be able to obtain very valuable information about black holes and general relativity that might be difficult to obtain in other ways.
黑洞是目前宇宙中能找到的最强引力场的源头，是在强场 regime 中测试爱因斯坦广义相对论的理想实验室。在本文中，我表明向最近的黑洞发射一艘小型宇宙飞船进行星际任务的可能性，尽管极具推测性且极具挑战性，但并非完全不切实际。当然，我们目前没有必要的技术，但可能在未来20 - 30年内具备。该任务可能持续80 - 100年，但我们将能够获得有关黑洞和广义相对论的非常有价值的信息，而这些信息可能难以通过其他方式获得。
