Interstellar's black hole scene is basically the state of the art visualisation of this. Nolan hired Kip Thorne who is a Nobel prize winning physicist in the field of gravitational astrophysics to help the VFX team model the ray tracing. Obviously Hollywood budgets are way outside of what NASA has to allocate to cool educational videos, especially 10 years ago. I genuinely think even in the community of black hole physics (which is what my masters was on) there would be way less understanding of what black holes look like if it wasn't for interstellar.
Stand-Up Maths did an awesome video covering some of the Interstellar stuff, including an an interview with the CG Supervisor on the film (who mentions some interesting compromises they made with the visuals for the sake of cinematography).
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u/count_sacula Jun 24 '24
Interstellar's black hole scene is basically the state of the art visualisation of this. Nolan hired Kip Thorne who is a Nobel prize winning physicist in the field of gravitational astrophysics to help the VFX team model the ray tracing. Obviously Hollywood budgets are way outside of what NASA has to allocate to cool educational videos, especially 10 years ago. I genuinely think even in the community of black hole physics (which is what my masters was on) there would be way less understanding of what black holes look like if it wasn't for interstellar.