5 Jun 2024

The Interstellar Black Hole

From Sci Fi / Sci Fact, 5:00 am on 5 June 2024
Black hole, abstract illustration. (Photo by SAKKMESTERKE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRA / AAT / Science Photo Library via AFP)

Photo: SAKKMESTERKE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Matthew McConaughey plays Joseph Cooper, an astronaut who heads into space hoping to find a solution for human life as the Earth falls apart.

Richard Easther

Richard Easther Photo: supplied

He not only survives being sucked into a black hole, but finds others got there first and built a tesseract which allows Cooper to communicate through time and space.

Richard Easter, theoretical cosmologist and Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland, talks to Bryan Crump about the real life possibilities of this happening.

 

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