{"id":220349,"date":"2025-08-18T12:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/a-laser-propelled-mini-spacecraft-could-travel-to-a-nearby-black-hole-astrophysicist-says"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:25:52","slug":"a-laser-propelled-mini-spacecraft-could-travel-to-a-nearby-black-hole-astrophysicist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/a-laser-propelled-mini-spacecraft-could-travel-to-a-nearby-black-hole-astrophysicist-says","title":{"rendered":"A laser-propelled mini spacecraft could travel to a nearby black hole, astrophysicist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-laser-propelled-mini-spacecraft-could-travel-to-a-nearby-black-hole-astrophysicist-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s reasonable to expect we could find a nearby one within the next decade,\u201d Bambi said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Today, building the necessary laser array would cost around $1.1 trillion, far beyond the reach of current science budgets. But if trends in technology continue, Bambi estimates that cost could fall to around one billion euros within 30 years, putting it on par with current flagship space missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have the technology now,\u201d Bambi said in the statement. \u201cBut in 20 or 30 years, we might.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s reasonable to expect we could find a nearby one within the next decade,\u201d Bambi said in the statement. Today, building the necessary laser array would cost around $1.1 trillion, far beyond the reach of current science budgets. But if trends in technology continue, Bambi estimates that cost could fall to around one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}