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SPACE EXPLORATION
What are the chances of a spacecraft surviving a trip through a black hole?
“ If you go to the event horizon you will go inside and very probably perish” Kip Thorne
Not much chance at all. But a trip to a black hole – that is, to the vicinity of a black hole – is not a problem. If you go to the event horizon you will go inside and very probably perish, but if you go near the black hole and if the black hole is big enough, the tidal forces don’t kill you and don’t destroy your ship. A slingshot around the black hole is a very powerful way to navigate through the universe.
If you have two black holes orbiting each other, you can bring a spaceship in and go on a slingshot around one of the black holes, then towards the other one and around, then back to the first one. If you design it so the black holes are moving
