The faster a black hole moves, the more energy a halo drive could draw from it. As such, Kipping largely focused on using pairs of black holes spiraling toward each other before a merger.

And then throw that hard drive into a black hole. The stored information cannot be lost, so it must be contained in the surface area of the black hole (albeit scrambled).

Black hole research and helium-filled hard drives may not seem to have much in common, but storage advances are critical to astrometric observations.

Theoretical black holes are ideal toy models for thought experiments in quantum gravity. ... Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy. 5.