The Endurance is the crew's ring-shaped home, designed to rotate to provide artificial gravity for the astronauts.
: The visual effects team, led by Paul Franklin and advised by Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, published actual scientific papers on the rendering techniques developed for the film.
The depiction of Gargantua is considered one of the most scientifically accurate representations of a black hole in cinema history.
: It appears as a vast, repeating library of Murphy’s bedroom at different points in time.
: One hour on this planet equals seven years on Earth, a concept visually emphasized by the ticking soundtrack. 4. The Endurance and Docking Scene
: Because the planet is so close to Gargantua, the black hole's immense gravity pulls the water into mountain-sized waves.
: One of the film's most intense visual sequences involves Cooper attempting to dock a Landers craft with the spinning, damaged Endurance while plummeting toward a planet's atmosphere.
