With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.

That’s the theme of the upcoming film Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway and opening Nov. 7.

A black hole also plays a key role in the film (to explain how the characters could experience time at different rates), with a design based on new mathematical models created by astrophysicist Kip Thorne. As noted in WIRED, Thorne expects at least two technical papers would come out of his research that went into creating the movie’s black hole, one for the astrophysicists and another for computer graphics specialists on the team’s discoveries about gravitational lensing.



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WIRED | Christopher Nolan and Kip Thorne give WIRED an exclusive look at the creation of

Interstellar‘s black hole.