ALT Composite image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Pointing to the middle of the main image is an inset image of the region around the “event horizon." In the main image, golden orange specks of light and tendrils of neon purple and blue clouds are set against a black background. Oranges and purples were captured in infrared light by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The blues represent data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. At the heart of the main image are several bright white dots, including one that contains the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. Emerging from this bright white dot is an inset image, housed at upper right. The image is from the Event Horizon Telescope. It shows a bright, orange ring with three golden yellow spots and red aura. This is gas around the event horizon of the galaxy’s supermassive black hole. The bright ring is formed by light bending in the black hole's intense gravity.

ALT "The university could also turn its words into action by divesting from Maryland Correctional Enterprises, the state of Maryland’s prison labor arm. In 2016, The Diamondback reported that the vast majority of furniture at this university comes from MCE inmates who are paid far less than $2 per hour of work — well below the minimum wage. And it doesn’t appear that there’s been any meaningful change to stop this university’s participation in the prison industrial complex — a system that disproportionately targets people of color and perpetuates racism in this country — since then. Student groups, including this university’s NAACP chapter, have pushed the university to divest from MCE, to no avail. Black people are overrepresented in the state of Maryland’s correctional facilities, making up 69 percent of those in prison while composing 31 percent of the state’s population. Now is a perfect time to divest from a system that disproportionately harms the black community."