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Jun 22, 2021 · Wormhole travel across the universe and supergiant black holes are just some of the wonders seen in the film 'Interstellar.' Here's how it works.
Oct 25, 2014 · The visualization of Gargantua revealed that black holes twist their "accretion disks" of infalling material into complex and stunning shapes — a find that had quite an effect on Thorne.
Nov 10, 2014 · Much of the action in "Interstellar" revolves around a giant black hole, which Cooper and his crewmates call "Gargantua." Thorne said he and the visual-effects crew took a great deal of...
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Christopher Nolan and Kip Thorne give WIRED an exclusive look at the creation of Interstellar ‘s black hole. ©2014 Paramount All Rights Reserved. The story the filmmakers came up with is...
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Oct 4, 2023 · How accurate is Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic Interstellar in depicting black holes, time dilation and space colonization? Learn from the movie's scientific consultant Kip Thorne and other experts how Interstellar got it right and wrong.
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Feb 12, 2015 · How did the visual effects team create the stunning images of the black hole and the wormhole in Interstellar? Learn about the computer code, the gravitational lensing, and the caustics that made it possible.
Thorne described the accretion disk of the black hole as "anemic and at low temperature —about the temperature of the surface of the sun," allowing it to emit appreciable light, but not enough gamma radiation and X-rays to threaten nearby astronauts and planets.
