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You can have movies, video games, key codes, MP3s, zip disks.

It is devouring so much mass and material that it churns its disk into a kind of magnetic funnel, spewing gas out making tremendous radio lobes, towering over the galaxy, half a million light years in diameter.

They’d just save whatever they wanted to print to the right “device file”; it wouldn’t actually get written to disk, instead the device driver would pick it up from there and do all the heavy lifting.

These black holes have eaten so much that they've grown to tens of billions of solar masses, their gravity the engine for a ‘quasar’- an accretion disk shining brighter than thousands of galaxies full of stars.

A black hole emits energy in a bunch of ways, but the most likely source we’d capture is heat from friction… created by all the debris swirling around the black hole in its massive accretion disk.