The science fiction film ” Interstellar” by director Christopher Nolan has managed to transfer fiction to scientific reality, since, as published by the team of experts that includes physicist Kip Thorne, from the California Institute of Technology (USA) in the magazine Classical and Quantum Gravity from IOP Publishing , the visual effects team has been so precise and realistic that they have explained to scientists how they made the images, providing the most compelling proof of what a black hole or hole would look like in reality. worm.
The Interstellar team describes in their article the original computer code that they used to generate the images of the film that recreated both the wormhole, the black hole and various celestial objects, and clarify how the code has led them to new scientific discoveries .
For example, when a camera is close to a rapidly spinning black hole, peculiar surfaces called caustics create more than a dozen images of individual stars and the plane of the galaxy where the black holes are located. They found that these images were concentrated along one edge of the black hole’s shadow, and the resulting snapshots represent what a human could see if it were orbiting a black hole .
The computer code created for the film mapped the paths of millions of light rays and the evolution of their cross sections as they traveled through the warped space-time of the black hole, thus creating the images of Gargantua , the black hole, the hole of worm and its brilliant accretion disk, with clarity never seen before .
“ This new approach to imaging will be of great value to astrophysicists like myself. We also need smooth images, ”explains Thorne.
