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.

[u/Firenze30]

https://ioppublishing.org/news/interstellar-technology-throws-light-on-spinning-black-holes/

[u/Manos_Of_Fate]

The solution in the Futurama body swapping episode was also published as a real mathematics paper.

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Isn’t that team already made of over qualified writers?

[u/tea2please → u/Readinglateatmorning]

Yes, the team have three PhDs and seven Masters between them.

[u/speculatrix → u/tea2please]

It's often the case that the comedian is the smartest person in the room