Assuming technology was available how would scientists navigate their way to a black-hole ?

Question

how distant is the nearest black-hole from our planet ?

how would they navigate towards a black-hole -how would they find one ?

Answer 1

As above we know about black holes and where to look for them/what to look for.

As for navigating towards them.. At the current time it would makes forever and a day to get to one (hundreds of thousands of years..).. But it can still be done quite easily..

Point and shoot really..! Space is big and empty and chances are nothing will come into ur path on the way! Sensor on board the spacecraft to make sure it was on track and that would be that!

Answer 2

The closest black holes yet discovered are several thousand light-years away.

X-ray and gamma ray emissions, accretion disks and gas jets are indicators of a possible black hole. Although not proof of one, those features would point to the best places to look.

Answer 3

Simple answer:-

We wouldn't.

Answer 4

If scientist had the technology...I could imagine that the scientist would probably use a system much like sending probes to distant planets, using the stars or planets to help accelerate the probe like a "slingshot" to a black hole candidate.

But why go to a black hole?  Even if the heat and pressure is greatest on the inside, it doesn't mean a black hole is frozen on the outside.  The black hole is still giving off heat and radiation to fry a machines circuits and melt the machine, the pressure to crush it, and the gravity to drag it in to an abyss of nothingness inside the black hole.  So it really would be more of a test of what would happen if we got close to a black hole.