The Event Horizon Telescope telescope will use background light to take a silhouetted picture of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Sagittarius A, which is 4 million times the mass of the Sun and 25,000 lightyears from Earth, will be the first black hole humans have ever visualized.

Public support of clean energy initiatives is being met with public funds. The private sector now also needs to amp up innovation in the area. The public must demand change, policy must facilitate it, and companies must do more to make the clean energy revolution a reality.

These gentle giants are undergoing a silent extinction.

IBM has announced IBM Q, an initiative to build the first commercially available universal quantum computers with the help of others interested in the field. IBM hopes to develop 50 qubit computer systems in the next few years, which would be dramatically faster and more powerful than today's computer systems.