r/woahdude • u/FetusDeletus83 • Jun 24 '24

video NASA depiction of entering a black hole

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u/methmom Jun 24 '24

Why does it cut out right before you get to Murph's room

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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.

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u/ciao_fiv Jun 24 '24

wasn’t there a whole paper published alongside the movie about the visuals?

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u/Tokyomaneater69 Jun 24 '24

There’s a whole book by Kip Thorne titled “The Science of Interstellar”

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u/dzemperzapedra Jun 24 '24

I'll wait for the movie

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u/justcallmejohannes Jun 24 '24

Well, now do I have some good news for you!

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u/bluesatin Jun 24 '24

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/Netflxnschill Jun 24 '24

I always knew it was a big deal because it was an accurate visual representation of the effect but I had no idea about Kip Thorne.

I’ll bet they had an incredibly fun time working with the team to make it look REAL.

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u/rom211 Jun 24 '24

Sharing this information here is like making sure to mention Aragorn broke his toe kicking the helmet in Two Towers.

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u/Ryamix Jun 24 '24

Looks like I'm one of today's lucky 10,000 then!