It may be an ambitious movie, but Interstellar relies heavily on real science when it comes to visuals.

Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, an expert on black holes and wormholes, spoke about the math of the special effects used in the film. The film focuses on the characteristics of the black hole's accretion disc.

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Gargantua, the fictional supermassive black hole with a mass 100 million times that of the sun, is the destination of spaceship Endurance. Gargantua rotates at an astounding 99.8 percent of the speed of light and lies 10 billion light-years from Earth and is orbited by several planets.

The complex appearance of Gargantua is because of the accretion disc being warped by gravitational lensing into two images: one looping over the black hole and the other under it.

It also features Einstein's equations that state time passes slower in higher gravity fields. So, in a planet that orbits close to a black hole, a clock ticks much slower than on a spaceship orbiting farther away.

The fictional black hole's accretion disc includes gas and dust and has the temperature similar to the surface of the sun. The disc brings light and heat to Gargantua's planets.

The mouth of wormhole appears as a circle. Ifone were to see a wormhole, however, it would look like a sphere. A sphere's surface can provide a gravitationally distorted view of space on the other side.

The wormhole in Interstellar is 1.25 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter and 10 billion light-years long.

According to Thorne, Interstellar can ber a forum for small talk about galaxies, mysteries of the universe and the like. Chris Nolan, director of the film, paid enormous attention to scientific details.

The National Academy of Sciences wants to develop full cooperation between scientists and the entertainment industry to find ways to bring accurate science and technological knowledge to the public.

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