A4_7 Supermassive (Interstellar) Black Hole
Abstract
This paper considers the plausibility of an event from the 2014 film Interstellar. It states that an hour on a planet orbiting a supermassive back hole is equivalent to 7 years passing on Earth. Calculations made state that the planet is inside the minimum orbit for a planet around a black hole and would thus fall with a ballistic trajectory into the centre.However, a static system was assumed, so with an optically spinning black hole the planet may be in a stable orbit. A spacecraft orbiting at a distance unaffected by time dilation is also considered and found to be largely implausible.Downloads
Published
12/11/2014
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Sullivan, C., Sallabank, J., Foden, A., & Higgins, A. (2014). A4_7 Supermassive (Interstellar) Black Hole. Physics Special Topics, 13(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/2239
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