University and industry labs are pushing boundaries: astronomers announced plans to capture the first moving image of a supermassive black hole, a project that could accelerate astrophysics research, while security engineers argue that adversarial testing—intentionally attacking hardware—is essential to building trustworthy systems. The black-hole imaging effort will rely on coordinated observatory networks and high-bandwidth data-processing partnerships, offering research universities a headline scientific objective. Meanwhile, security labs that simulate hostile attacks on chips underscore growing collaboration between academic researchers and industry on resilience, supply-chain risk, and national-security implications.