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by antimagic 4039 days ago
Not so, only one of the two solutions is unstable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_geodesics#Circul...

Also, this applies only to circular orbits, and does not indicate that a powered ship could not maintain orbit.

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Those orbits are all outside the event horizon. Inside it, all you can hope to do is fall inward as slowly as possible.
BTW most of what I know about black hole physics is from Greg Egan's novel "Incandescence". Which covers quite a lot of science for a work of fiction (and overall extremely inspiring).

http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/INCANDESCENCE/Incan...