

Because even light can't escape, these forces create a unique shadow in the form of a perfect circle at the black hole's center.

Scientists struggled for decades to capture one on camera, because black holes are so massive and spin so quickly that they distort space-time, ensuring that nothing can break free from their gravitational pull. In the end, McConaughey's character navigates his ship into the supermassive black hole, inside which he discovers a fifth dimension, inter-dimensional omniscient beings, and the ability to communicate with his estranged daughter across time and space.ĭirector Christopher Nolan and his visual effects team strove for superior scientific accuracy in "Interstellar" - they even hired theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne as a consultant. In it, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway play astronauts who travel through a wormhole - a tunnel that allows for nearly instantaneous travel between far-distant points - to explore three planets that orbit Gargantua, 10 billion light-years from Earth. The film came out exactly five years ago, in November 2014.

#Real black hole movie#
In the movie "Interstellar," a fictional black hole called Gargantua takes center stage. At the heart of every galaxy lies a supermassive black hole, where gravity is so strong that nothing - not even light - can escape its boundary.
