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gr-qc2015★ 115 cited
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar
Oliver James, Eugenie von Tunzelmann, Paul Franklin +1
Interstellar is the first Hollywood movie to attempt depicting a black hole as it would actually be seen by somebody nearby. For this we developed a code called DNGR (Double Negati…
gr-qc2015★ 72 cited
Visualizing Interstellar's Wormhole
Oliver James, Eugenie von Tunzelmann, Paul Franklin +1
Christopher Nolan's science fiction movie Interstellar offers a variety of opportunities for students in elementary courses on general relativity theory. This paper describes such…