00:00Imagine building a spacecraft no bigger than a paper clip and sending it to a black hole.
00:05That's exactly what scientists now want to do.
00:07The plan? Use powerful Earth-based lasers to blast a tiny nanocraft to a third of the speed of light.
00:14If there's a black hole within 25 light years, it could reach it in under a century.
00:19The catch? This mission could cost up to 1 trillion pounds.
00:22And the tech we need doesn't even exist yet.
00:25But why go through all this trouble?
00:27Because black holes bend space and time in ways our current physics can't fully explain.
00:32Getting close enough could finally reveal if Einstein's theories hold up,
00:36or if the universe has even stranger secrets.
00:39It's risky. It's expensive. It could take 100 years.
00:43But if we succeed, we might just rewrite the laws of reality itself.
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