From 1000-pound hard drives to a MacBook: black hole imaging leap

Generating the first M87 black hole image in 2019 required 1000 pounds of hard drives, while today a MacBook Pro can fine-tune a diffusion model in about an hour to produce thousands of physically plausible images.

2026-08-28 ~ 2026-08-28 · 2 related posts

• In 2019 imaging M87* took 1,000 lbs of hard drives; now a MacBook and 1 hour of fine-tuning does it — yassineyousfi_ · 2026-08-28

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