Could we ever actually throw stuff into a black holes?

Question

Could we shoot a voyager type of spacecraft into a black holes and see what happens?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Sending a probe into a black hole would be the equivalent of dropping an old video recorder down a mineshaft without a rope attached. All you’d learn is what your recorder looks like as it disappears into blackness. We would need a way to send and receive data from inside a black hole to make it worthwhile.