Oct 262014
Seems I was right in my guess three months back that what’s featured in the “Interstellar” trailers was a black hole with an accretion disk. It also seems that the film makers went to rather more than the usual level of effort to depict it. I’ve always been rather disappointed with how black holes are portrayed; even the recent “Cosmos” series got it rather obviously wrong: a black hole isn’t just a big black sphere, it’s a gravitational lens which distorts space behind, before and around it.
Click the link to see the fairly interesting video on the physics behind “Interstellars” black hole depiction.