Sci-fi film Interstellar leads to new scientific discovery

[Zeus 7997]

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/22292/1/sci-fi-film-interstellar-leads-to-new-scientific-discovery?fb_action_ids=10204893473479448&fb_action_types=og.likes

 

Nolan enlisted astrophysicist Kip Thorne to work with his special effects team in order to create the most realistic looking black hole on cinema. Thorne started by sending pages and pages of equations that Nolan's animators fed into their rendering software.

 

"We found that warping space around the black hole also warps the accretion disk," special effects head Paul Franklin said. "So rather than looking like Saturn's rings around a black sphere, the light creates this extraordinary halo."

 

Thorne quickly realised that the model generated by Nolan's team is as scientifically accurate as it gets. Forget artistic licence; this is what black holes actually look like. "This is our observational data," Thorne explained. "That's the way nature behaves. Period."

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Ha! That's awesome.

[Elazmus 1873]

That's incredibly cool, makes me kind of surprised we hadn't invested in trying to render this before.. but Hollywood does what Hollywood does lol