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Interstellar the movie worked with Kip Thorne to do the most accurate visualization of a black hole according to the laws of General Relativity.

The visual result is quite something else and worth a few minutes to watch

Nice one, Orac. Definitely worth a few minutes.

Interesting that Kip Thorne (Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy) rejects the idea of infinite curvature of spacetime at a singularity.

“Singularity: A region of spacetime where spacetime curvature becomes so strong that the general relativistic laws break down and the laws of quantum gravity take over. If one tries to describe a singularity using general relativity alone, one finds (incorrectly) that tidal gravity and spacetime curvature are infinitely strong there. Quantum gravity probably replaces these infinities by quantum foam.”

I am not touching that one Bill G and Rede will be on my back otherwise

What I will say is Kip is one of the few people to win a bet with Hawkings. If you don't know the story
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne-Hawking-Preskill_bet)