Does anyone remember Interstellar. Their black hole simulation was based on hard science. Looks fairly similar
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-blac...
> Nolan's story relied on time dilation: time passing at different rates for different characters. To make this scientifically plausible, Thorne told him, he'd need a massive black hole—in the movie it's called Gargantua—spinning at nearly the speed of light.
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> Von Tunzelmann tried a tricky demo. She generated a flat, multicolored ring—a stand-in for the accretion disk—and positioned it around their spinning black hole. Something very, very weird happened. “We found that warping space around the black hole also warps the accretion disk,” Franklin says. “So rather than looking like Saturn's rings around a black sphere, the light creates this extraordinary halo.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bc343r/for_those_con...
i really feel they should have keep the more realistic one and dialed it up a bit. the more whispy distortions are much more awe-inspiring than the symmetrical, oversaturated version.
the source paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/6/06...
When interstellar came out wired did a full magazine spread on the movie, covering its science, how they came up with the story and what the director did to make sure it was believable. idk what it looks like online but I've kept the magazine.
The thing would look like a mirror sphere, floating in the middle of space, reflecting the space around you. Except it would be the space on the other side of the wormhole, not that behind you, and the motion of the "mirrored" image would be opposite of that on a real mirror. (The apparent image on the wormhole's spherical surface would appear to move in your same direction, as you're moving around it, not in the opposite direction as it does on a spherical mirror.)
It took me a while to reason about it and figure out that it was indeed what a wormhole would look like, if we could find or create one.