Too bad the closest black hole is thousands of light years away, because even at tens of light years away, decades of latency would have been worth it to put a telescope near the black hole and not only observe it, but use it as a lens to get the best telescope we could ever hope to have.
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Too bad the closest black hole is thousands of light years away, because even at tens of light years away, decades of latency would have been worth it to put a telescope near the black hole and not only observe it, but use it as a lens to get the best telescope we could ever hope to have.