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).

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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).