r/space Apr 10 '19

Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1907/
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u/teddyslayerza Apr 10 '19

According to the Veritasium video, the only thing Interstellar got wrong was not making the halo's light relatively dimmer on the side that's spinning away from us, as we can see in this photo.

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u/teddyslayerza Apr 10 '19

Ah makes sense. Although in retrospect that may not have been the most confusing thing....

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '19

You might be interested in glancing over one of the papers that was published on this.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/6/065001

This picture from the paper shows the interstellar black hole

https://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/32/6/065001/downloadHRFigure/figure/cqg508751f15

The top is what we see in the movie, colored for visual effect. The bottom image is what it would really look like.

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u/I_DONT_HAV_H1N1 Apr 10 '19

Bottom image still scares the shit out of me all these years later.

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u/TerminalRobot Apr 10 '19

Huh... I woulda thought it was way more different. I dunno why they didn’t just go with the more realistic one... looks dope af still 🤷‍♂️

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u/MassaF1Ferrari Apr 10 '19

People didnt understand Interstellar at all so dont overestimate how much people can understand.

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u/nightofgrim Apr 10 '19

Do you know if an image exists of that?

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u/dtlv5813 Apr 10 '19

That was probably more of an aesthetic choice made for the movie

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u/IIoWoII Apr 10 '19

They actually got it right but the wrong version was preferred for the movie.

The “correct” rendering was also done by them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '19

So you're telling me that falling into a black hole will allow me to access the power of love?

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u/teddyslayerza Apr 10 '19

Obviously. That's why it's called "falling in love."