Interstellar director Christopher Nolan discusses what it was like to learn that the film’s portrayal of a black hole is scientifically accurate 5 years later. Released in 2014, Nolan’s space epic stars Matthew McConaughey as Cooper, an astronaut who embarks on a mission to find a new home for humanity as Earth dies. Nolan worked with theoretical physicist Kip Thorne on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, including its depiction of the black hole Gargantua, which was proven to be accurate in 2019 when the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first-ever image of one in a faraway galaxy.
