The Science of Interstellar

4.5:© Lia Halloran, www.liahalloran.com

4.6:© Lia Halloran and Kip Thorne

4.7:© Lia Halloran and Kip Thorne

5.5:Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

5.6:Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James.

5.7:Karl Schwarzschild: photograph by Robert Bein, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Roy Kerr: Roy P. Kerr. Stephen Hawking: © Richard M. Diaz. Robert Oppenheimer: en.wikipedia.org—J._Robert_Oppenheimer. Andrea Ghez: Mary Watkins (UCLA)

5.8:Keck/UCLA Galactic Center Group; Andrea Ghez

5.9:Akira Fujii/ESA/Hubble

6.5:© Kip Thorne, patterned after illustrations by Edward Teo (2003)

7.4:Left: © Robert Gendler (robgendlerastropics.com). Right: © Kip Thorne

7.6:Steve Drasco, assistant professor of physics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

7.7:Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

8.1:Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James.

8.3:Star field image: Alain Riazuelo, IAP/UPMC/CNRS; drawing: Kip Thorne. Movie camera icon courtesy basarugur

8.4:Star field image: Alain Riazuelo, IAP/UPMC/CNRS; drawing: Kip Thorne

8.5:Image: Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James; drawing: Kip Thorne. © Warner Bros. and Kip Thorne

8.6:Image: Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James; drawing: Kip Thorne. © Warner Bros. and Kip Thorne. Movie camera icon courtesy basarugur

9.1:Photo: NASA/STScI. Spectrum: Maarten Schmidt

9.2:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet

9.3:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet

9.4:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet

9.5:James Guillochon

9.6:James Guillochon

9.7:Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James.

9.8:Movie camera icon courtesy basarugur. © Kip Thorne

9.9:Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James.

10.1:Steve Drasco, assistant professor of physics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

11.2:NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center/Giovanni. Special thanks to James G. Acker.

13.1:© Kip Thorne and Richard Powell, www.atlasoftheuniverse.com

13.2:Freeman Dyson

13.3:Copyright © American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronomics, Inc. 1983. All rights reserved.

14.1:Apple © Preto Perola/Shutterstock.com. Ant: © Katarzyna Cielecka/Fotalia.com

14.2:Wormhole drawing on left previously published in Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler (1973); remainder of figure: Kip Thorne

14.3:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet

14.4:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet

14.6:Left: © Catherine MacBride. Right: © Mark Interrante

14.7:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet

14.8:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet

15.2:Left: Kip Thorne. Right: Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James. © Warner Bros. and Kip Thorne

15.4:Left: Kip Thorne. Right: Double Negative Visual Effects: Eugénie von Tunzelmann and Oliver James. © Warner Bros. and Kip Thorne

16.1:Photos courtesy of the LIGO Laboratory

16.3:Courtesy of the LIGO Laboratory

16.4:Images produced by Robert McGehee, Ian MacCormack, Amin Nikbin, and Keara Soloway from a simulation by F. Foucart et al. (2011)

16.6:© Lia Halloran, www.liahalloran.com

16.7:Image courtesy Robert Owen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College

16.9:Figure courtesy SXS collaboration, www.black-holes.org

16.10:Steffen Richter

17.7:Top: © Xinhua/Xinhua Press/Corbis. Bottom: © AFLO/Nippon News/Corbis

17.8:NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

18.1:Data: Huan Yang, Aaron Zimmerman; image: Oliver James and Eugénie von Tunzelmann. © Warner Bros.

21.1:Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

21.2:Left: courtesy John Schwarz. Right: Steve Jennings/Getty Images

22.1:History of Science Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University

23.1:Image of Sun: Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.

23.4:Randall photo: © Tsar Fedorsky, 2014. Sundrum photo: Raman Sundrum, professor of theoretical physics, University of Maryland, College Park

24.2:NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/SDSS

24.3:Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA

24.8:NASA/JPL

25.1:Melinda Sue Gordon. © Warner Bros.

25.4:ESA–GOCE High Level Processing Facility

25.7:Kip Thorne. © Warner Bros.

25.8:Melinda Sue Gordon. © Warner Bros.

26.1:Released into the public domain by PoorLeno

26.2:Photo courtesy of the LIGO Laboratory

26.3:Property of the estate of Matthew H. Zimet. Courtesy Eva Zimet

26.4:ChrisVanLennepPhoto/Shutterstock.com

26.6:© Stephen Hawking, John Preskill, Kip Thorne

26.7:Left: © Matthew W. Choptuik 2000. Middle and right: © Kip Thorne

26.8:Photo by Irene Fertik 1997

26.9:© Lia Halloran, www.liahalloran.com

27.2:Kip Thorne for drawing; Double Negative for image of Endurance. © Kip Thorne and Warner Bros.

27.4:Jeff Darling, www.diseno-art.com