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aspheric_cow t1_j4wwqpp wrote

  1. There aren't any nearby black holes.
  2. We don't have the technology to send a probe to any black hole. We don't even have the technology to send a probe to another star, and the closest black holes are hundreds of times further still.
  3. Any probe we send near a black hole will be ripped to shreds by the tidal force. (Unless maybe if it's a supermassive black hole, but I think the closest one is at the center of our Galaxy which is 28,000 light-years away.)
  4. Even if we had the technology to send an interstellar probe, it would be a lot more valuable to send it to star systems with potentially habitable planets, or star-forming regions, or maybe a newly formed star with a protoplanetary disk, or maybe a really old globular cluster, or a late stage star that may go supernova any time, etc, etc.
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