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human
If we could send a satellite to a black hole are there ways to transmit information back?
gpt
As long as that satellite doesn't cross the event horizon it will be able to communicate just like normal. It's a bit of a common misconception that black holes act like cosmic vacuum cleaners or something - at reasonable distances from the event horizon a black hole behaves just like any other ordinary gravitating mass. 

For example, if the sun was replaced by a black hole of the same mass right now the earth and planets wouldn't all get sucked in- they'd just continue on happily in their (now darkened) orbits.