• Question: if black holes really do time travel when do you think we will be able to do experiments like send probes to them ? be as realistic as possible thanks

    Asked by hadi to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 27 Jun 2012:


      Black holes are thought to be created by something so huge, not even light can escape its gravitational field. Anything that went into a black hole would be instantly crushed (that includes earth) so its highly unlikley that we would ever be able to get any information back from a probe.

    • Photo: Bob Bonwick

      Bob Bonwick answered on 2 Jul 2012:


      If we could build a probe that could withstand a black hole and be able to communicate back to us, I’d like to see where it goes, backwards or forwards in time. I’d guess Backwards as it’s already happened, it it goes forwards then it wouldn’t have happned yet.

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