Friday, January 16, 2026

Has anyone been in space and actually gone into or near a black hole?

 

Negative. The nearest black hole is believed to be in the V616 Monocerotis system, roughly 3,000 light years away.

The farthest that humans have travelled is to the moon. The black hole is 73,833,468,262 times more distant than the moon. At the velocity of the Apollo capsules it would take 80,472,276 years to reach that black hole.

If the dinosaurs had an astro program and sent an astronaut in the direction of that black hole, then he or she might well be just arriving there today.