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To image a black hole they needed half a ton of hard drives containing five petabytes of data. The fastest way to transfer that data? Airplane. An airplane data transfer from Mauna Kea to Massachusetts would have a data rate of roughly 14GB per second. sixcolors.com/post/2019/04/seeing-a-black-hole-with-half-a-ton-of-hard-drives/