#INTERSTELLAR LEADS TO SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY! #ChristopherNolans Interstellar is right around the corner for its UAE release, but that hasnt stopped it from shaking up the world in a very unexpected way. Namely, the sci-fi film has actually led to a new scientific discovery about the nature of black holes. Nolan enlisted astrophysicist Kip Thorne to work with his special effects team in order to create the most realistic looking black hole on cinema. Thorne started by sending pages and pages of equations that Nolans animators fed into their rendering software. Thorne, whod previously worked with #CarlSagan on the Jodie Foster-starring space classic Contact (1997), had only ever conceived of a black hole theoretically. Nobody had any idea what it would actually look like. What the computers finally churned out after hours of rendering – all 800 terabytes of it – was astounding. Turns out that a black hole doesnt look too much like its name. It actually looks like this: We found that warping space around the black hole also warps the accretion disk, special effects head Paul Franklin said. So rather than looking like Saturns rings around a black sphere, the light creates this extraordinary halo. Thorne quickly realised that the model generated by Nolans team is as scientifically accurate as it gets. Forget artistic licence; this is what black holes actually look like. This is our observational data, Thorne explained. Thats the way nature behaves. Period. The scientists says that he can publish at least two research papers based on the find. So when you watch #MatthewMcConaughey save the world in Interstellar, youre also watching scientific progress in motion. AWESOME! :D
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:01:01 +0000
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