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).

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.

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.

It also required about half a ton of hard drives. Data collection for the historic black hole image began in 2017 with a coordinated effort called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).