Simulations of the Black Hole in the well Received Movie "Interstellar" Leads to New Scientific Discoveries

The filming of the movie Interstellar might have just helped scientists understand black holes a little better through art's most bastardized genre- science fiction. Using computer programs to simulate the appearance of coming close to a black hole (as in the movie), Double Negative (production company) and Kip Thorne (a theoretical physicist) created a computer program to create the image seen when coming across a black hole. When one comes into contact with a black hole, time and space are altered by the swirling vortex which sucks everything in around it, including space and time. 

The computer code tracked millions of beams of light and their changing cross-sections as they went through the black hole, interpreting the change and creating a visual image from it. Measuring this, they were able to replicate the altered image one would experience standing right outside a black hole, but with none of the dangers of being sucked into one!

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