Thorne Isn't your average astrophysicist. Black holes, even fictional ones, can warp perception. Nolan, the consummate image maker, sees beauty. And alongside a small galaxy of Hollywood stars-Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Casey Affleck, John Lithgow-the simulation plays a central role in Interstellar, the prestige space travel epic directed by Christopher Nolan opening November 7. It's the product of a year of work by 30 people and thousands of computers. What does Thorne see in there? He's an astrophysicist his math guided the creation of this mesmerizing visual effect, the most accurate simulation ever of what a black hole would look like. Relatively speaking, time would seem to be going faster for me. And it gets weirder: If you were closer to a black hole than I was, our perceptions of space and time would diverge.
Objects like stars and black holes do this so powerfully that they actually bend light and pull space and time with it. Einstein explained this: The more massive something is, the more gravity it produces. For example, their gravity is so strong that they bend the fabric of the universe. A glowing ring orbiting the spheroidal maelstrom seems to curve over the top and below the bottom simultaneously.Īll this is only natural, because weird things happen near black holes. (That's gravity for you relativity is superweird.) In theory it was once a star, but instead of fading or exploding, it collapsed like a failed soufflé into a tiny point of inescapable singularity. It appears to spin at nearly the speed of light, dragging bits of the universe along with it. That's what it would do.” ¶ This particular black hole is a simulation of unprecedented accuracy. Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, “Why, of course.
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