The idea of matter escaping the alleged point - of - no - return was surprising (it's a central plot point in that other recent
movie about black holes, the biographical The Theory of Everything), but the fate of information that falls into the black hole was what really troubled Hawking's colleagues.
Not exact matches
According to the calculations of Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who served as scientific consultant for Interstellar, the
movie's
black hole, known as Gargantua, must have had a mass 100 million times that of the sun and whirled
about its own axis at breakneck speeds.
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She's the
black hole of the
movie, sucking everything into her profound nothingness, but that's OK because that's what Bertolucci seems to think lust is
about.