Cambridge astronomers announced plans to capture a moving image—a ‘movie’—of a supermassive black hole for the first time, a technical campaign that the team says would accelerate observational astrophysics by an order of magnitude. The effort builds on prior static imaging and would require coordinated arrays and new analysis pipelines. If successful, the moving-image project would permit time-resolved study of accretion flows, jet formation and relativistic effects around black holes. The initiative will engage university observatories, national labs, and graduate researchers in instrumentation, high-performance computing, and theory. Universities with astronomy, physics, and data-science programs stand to gain funding and high-profile collaboration opportunities. The project also underscores growing demand for interdisciplinary training in computational astrophysics and large-scale instrumentation.