Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> You'd wind up changing the course of the black hole much less than you'd 
> change the course of your spaceship, is all.

  The black hole would have to be moving towards the general direction
of Earth, in that case.

> I also think the black hole would be better, because you can get closer and 
> get a bigger time dilation from the gravity also.

  But you get tons of other problems, as I described in my post. :P

> > - The humongous amounts of radiation around a black hole would probably
> > be enough to fry you to ashes in a fraction of a second, 

> FWIW, it's the accretion disk that generates the radiation, so you could 
> kill two birds with one stone by finding one without.

  As very massive objects, and ones usually formed from collapsing stars
(the collapse leaving behind tons of stuff), I think it would be rather
difficult to find "naked" black holes, without the accompanying stuff.

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