Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe – a reputation not helped by the difficulty of studying them.

Because these ultra-dense objects emit no light we can detect, we have to study them based on the effect they have on the space around them , from large distances across space-time. But there could be another way to get the skinny on these cosmic heavyweights.

"I was looking for some completely new way to study black holes," astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University in China told ScienceAlert, "and I realized that an interstellar mission to the closest black hole is not unrealistic – but nobody had ever proposed it."

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