Interstellar’s warped universe

Gravity, black holes, wormholes and the bulk, as Kip Thorne explains them in The Science of Interstellar. Drag the scene, change the controls, read the card.

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Object

Warp

Black hole mass

10 Suns

Try

Distance from centre

2.2 × horizon

Spin a/M

0.900

Try

Show

Light

View from

5° above

Disk

Spin, 1 − a/M

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Planet clock

Landing

Fold the paper

Folded

Wormhole

Camera, distance along the wormhole

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Length 2a/ρ

0.01

Lensing width 𝒲/ρ

0.05

Preset

The bulk

Another brane

Tesseract

Turn through

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Made by LiveLabs Ventures. Physics after Kip Thorne’s The Science of Interstellar (2014) and the Double Negative papers of 2015. Style after Ryan Sael’s sael.net. Not affiliated with the film.