"Careening toward a singularity, you might have a colorful experience, if only for a blink of an eye."
"If the star was spinning before the collapse, then the black hole will spin, too. If the collapse is perfectly symmetric, a smooth black hole forms."
"No spacecraft is going to get you to a black hole and back by dinnertime – even if you live to be one hundred and only want dinner on your last day."
"What might you see? Even before you crossed the event horizon, things would start to look strange."
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The excerpt that best conveys the distance of the closest black hole to Earth is:
"No spacecraft is going to get you to a black hole and back by dinnertime – even if you live to be one hundred and only want dinner on your last day."
This sentence implies that the distance to a black hole is vast, making it impossible to reach one and return in a reasonable amount of time, even over the span of a lifetime.
