Groundbreaking 1979 visualization of black hole

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I never saw Kip Thorne mention this visualization even once while the media was fawning over him for the FX in Interstellar. It’s disappointing that he didn’t give credit where it was due.

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Oh, man, this is crying out to be a blacklight print.

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I was honestly expecting this

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This movie was my first experience both of being disappointed in a movie theater, and of the at-that-age strange emotion of love/hate.

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The last gif there is now part of my bios … now I LOVE to reboot!

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