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If black holes do exist, it is quite possible that we will visit one some day in the distant future. Even now we are capable of sending rockets to the most distant planets in the solar system. And recently a rocket exited the solar system and is now headed for the stars. It will, of course, be hundreds of thousands of years before it reaches the nearest stars; nevertheless, it’s a start.
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Parker, B. (1991). Journey into a Black Hole. In: Cosmic Time Travel. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6136-5_10
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