Could we shoot a voyager type of spacecraft into a black holes and see what happens?
In: Physics
Yes, with some big caveats
1: Location: Black Holes that we know about are fucking bullshit far away. Far enough away that even if we tried to shoot for one now, every single person alive would be dead a thousand times over before it got there.
2: Speed: So, here’s a fun counterintuitive fact about space. It’s harder to shoot something into the sun than it is to shoot it out of the solar system. When you shoot something towards the sun, all of the velocity running parallel to any massive object has to be bled off through propulsion, otherwise you just enter into an orbit instead of falling in. The closer you get the more those forces are magnified so you really do need to get to to zero. This is equally true with a black hole.
3: We can’t get anything out of it: So, the whole thing about a black hole is they are so dense that nothing can escape it. If we shot a probe into one, even assuming that it could withstand the gravitational forces ripping it into a strand of molecules, once it falls out nothing the signal was sending would be able to escape the event horizon, meaning we couldn’t get the information.
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