You know, sometimes the most ambitious scientific ideas take a truly staggering amount of time to even begin to realize. Today, August 7th, 2025, I stumbled across a plan that’s both mind-bogglingly long-term and surprisingly down-to-earth in its concept: sending a tiny, laser-powered spacecraft to visit a black hole.
This isn’t some far-off sci-fi dream; it’s a serious proposal from scientists who are thinking about how we can explore the universe’s most extreme objects. The idea is to launch a