First Interstellar paper is out

[Pete Cortez]

Open access at CQG.

 

[jedishrfu]

Awesome! Thanks for posting this.

 

[timthereaper]

Didn't take long...3 months and some change.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics, and in the movie Interstellar

Interstellar is the first Hollywood movie to attempt depicting a black hole as it would actually be seen by somebody nearby. For this, our team at Double Negative Visual Effects, in collaboration with physicist Kip Thorne, developed a code called Double Negative Gravitational Renderer (DNGR) to solve the equations for ray-bundle (light-beam) propagation through the curved spacetime of a spinning (Kerr) black hole, and to render IMAX-quality, rapidly changing images.