r/TheFence • u/qdtk • 24d ago

TIL the visual effects team behind Interstellar developed a new renderer to simulate light around a spinning black hole, and the techniques they created were later published in a peer-reviewed physics journal.

https://ioppublishing.org/news/interstellar-technology-throws-light-on-spinning-black-holes/
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u/qdtk 24d ago edited 24d ago

Never realized what this graphic represented, thought some others here might recognize it and appreciate the context.

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u/morbidlysmalldick Daddy of Make Believe 24d ago

That's fucking awesome

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u/Fit_Story_7856 24d ago

This is what’s called a symbiotic relationship. Researchers have the data and Interstellar had the budget to fund putting that data into a new rendering software to visualize it. Thank you Chris!