From the Interstellar wikipedia page: The resulting visual effects provided Thorne with new insight into the gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes, resulting in the publication of three scientific papers.[71][72][73]

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    The paper does state that no astrophysical insights were gained, more insights on how to produce pretty yet accurate images. But still, cool!

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        No, it’s really not.

        Christopher Nolan’s screenplays tend to be hit or miss, and Interstellar is deep in the “miss” category

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              Interstellar is the sort of movie that would have done a lot better in the hands of a director like Spielberg. Nolan’s dry, clinical, super grounded approach is unspeakably jarring in a movie whose ultimate thesis is that love is a kind of fundamental force. It wants to be a magic-realist fantasy, but Nolan tries to treat it like a pseudo-documentary.

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    You can see a very distinct before/after Interstellar whenever black holes are depicted in media. Prior to Interstellar, black holes were depicted like whirlpools even though Jean-Pierre Luminet generated an image in the 1970s that shows gravitational lensing.