Did you know that Interstellar created the most accurate representation of black holes? 

Space travel has always been a popular movie genre with youngsters. Movies like Gravity (2013), The Martian (2015), Ad Astra (2019) and The First Man (2018) are some of the finest examples that depict space travel perfectly. However, it was Interstellar that proved to be a game-changer! Created in 2014 by director Christopher Nolan, it received critical acclaim worldwide for its scientific accuracy. Here are four things in the movie Interstellar that got too real! 

Gargantua: The most accurate representation of black holes 
When you hear the word black holes, what do you imagine? A giant black sphere in space, capable of transcending space and time, right? Black holes have been frequently depicted in movies like The Theory of Everything (2014), The Black Hole (1979) and Star Trek (1979). But did you know that Interstellar has the most accurate depiction of how a black might appear? Director Christopher Nolan and his team strove for utmost scientific accuracy when portraying the movie's massive black hole 'Gargantuaq'. As a result, the depiction of Gargantua is lauded till date! It took a team of 30 people, and the computer took 100-plus hours to create the visual imagery of this black hole in the movie. Significant discoveries made by scientists, later on, showed that Nolan's depiction of a black hole, though not completely accurate, was really close!  

The space suits: Very close to the real ones worn by NASA astronauts 
Costumes play a huge role in creating visual imagery in a movie. The astronaut costumes depicted in Interstellar are not at all cheesy and fake. They are very much in line with the modern NASA space suits that astronauts actually don in their space missions. The suits were based on recent space technology. The costume designers made sure that everything on the suit served a purpose. In addition, the designers made sure that the space suits worn by actors in the movie looked natural and not corny.  

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist backed the film 
How far can a film maker go to keep the movie close to reality? Sometimes, movie makers hire specialists too. To make the biggest sci-fi movie of the decade, Nolan had to hire someone big. He took help from a Nobel laureate for the movie, no less! Hi name is Kip Thorne. He is an American physicist born in Logan, Utah, in 1940 and won the Nobel prize for his work in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the direct detection of gravity waves in 2017. Thorne was more than just an advisor for the movie. He did a massive amount of research to ensure that the effects and portrayals shown in the movie were scientifically sound. This can be seen especially in the depiction of the black hole Gargantua.  

Interstellar led to actual research 
The movie led to many scientific research papers being published on supermassive black holes in international journals, for real! How often do you see research done for the sake of a movie leading to real scientific research? This goes to show that Interstellar is truly a scientific masterpiece.