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"Kip wanted us to be as accurate as possible in our representation of the interstellar phenomena which are at the heart of the story in the film, and we wanted to make it look as accurate as possible and reflect the way that the real physics drives the image that we see on the screen. "We had this amazing collaborator, professor Kip Thorne of Caltech in Pasadena, who's one of the world's leading theoretical physicists and an expert in black holes, space-time, wormholes, and all sorts of extraordinary things that come out of the physics of Albert Einstein. "Our goal when we set out to create the visual effects for Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar was that we wanted to put science at the heart of the story of the film. Gargantua is the black hole at the heart of Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi epic 'Interstellar.' (Legendary Pictures) Creating Gargantua

Along with Kip Thorne and the effects team at DNEG visual effects studio in London, he was responsible for realizing the Gargantua black hole at the heart of Nolan's film.įranklin spoke with Day 6 about what it was like constructing the Gargantua black hole, as well as what he felt when he first saw the photo of the Powehi black hole.īelow is part of a transcript of that conversation. Paul Franklin is a visual effects supervisor based in London and was the visual effects supervisor for Nolan's Interstellar. The image of the newly named Powehi black hole resembles precisely what scientists predicted a black hole would look like, even if the photo isn't as impressive as some of the black holes put to film and television. Unlike films that rely on a team of visual effects artists, however, EHT researchers used radio wave data collected by eight telescopes around the world, to capture an image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Messier 87 galaxy, within the constellation Virgo. On Wednesday, scientists with the global Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project unveiled the world's first-ever photograph of a real black hole, and the image might look familiar to fans of Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi epic Interstellar.