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Fun thought experiment, "Why don't they just send a space probe to a black hole", let's break it down:
The closest known black hole is 1,560 light-years away. Voyager 1 is about 0.0025 light years away from Earth and it launched in 1977. At that rate it would take 624,000 years to get to the closest black hole (and that's not actually accounting for orbital mechanics, which I don't even want to try and figure out).
But, imagine we launched something much lighter on a HUGE rocket, we could maybe increase its total velocity by something like 10 to MAYBE something crazy like 100 times if it was tiny, so that's still either 62,400 years or 6,240 years, PLUS the fact that once it gets there, it would still take 1,560 years just for the information to get back.
So to reiterate, if we launched a tiny payload on a massive rocket 100 times faster than Voyager 1, it would take about 7,800 years for us to receive data back. That's why we haven't visited a black hole, because it's pretty infeasible, at least on human timescales and technology.