"Interstellar" Movie May Have Accurately Portrayed Black Holes, Scientists

Interstellar amazed audience with science but now it is enthralling scientists who believe the movie may actually help with black hole science.

According to Tech Times, the visual effects team and the scientific consultant who worked on the film have released a paper published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity. The paper reveals how the team portrayed a black hole. Interstellar was the first movie to attempt black hole portrayal from nearby. The paper describes the code used in the movie to solve some equations for light beams as they travelled through curved space and time at of the black hole. It also informs that the science in the movie was actually toned down to keep it simple for audiences.

"To describe how the images of the black hole Gargantua and its accretion disk, in the movie Interstellar, were generated with DNGR-including, especially, the influences of decisions that the film makers made about these influences and about the Gargantua's spin, with the goal of producing images understandable for a mass audience," the paper's authors wrote of their paper. The authors include Oliver James of Double Negative Visual Effects which worked with filmmaker Christopher Nolan on the movie.

New Scientist reported that some of the science was toned down included the Doppler shifts in light emitted from accretion disc of the super massive black hole Gargantua that amazed viewers and appearance of the black hole itself. The work published by team has scientists, including a few from NASA, interested.