CERN recorded 1 exabyte of LHC data. If it was a movie, we'd be watching it for 50,000 years

The amount of data collected during experiments conducted in the large Hadron Collider exceeded 1 exabyte. And you gotta remember that not all information is written down. Billions of protons collide all second during accelerator work. These clashes carry a immense amount of information. First, they are passed through a peculiar filter that removes the vast majority of them. A tiny condition of them are recorded. And it's this data that's being analyzed later, and they're the ones that aid us learn about the next discoveries.