Gravitational lensing to the max

A new model is bringing scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light signals produced when two supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, spiral toward a collision. For the first time, a new computer simulation that fully incorporates the physical effects of Einstein's general theory of relativity shows that gas in such systems will glow predominantly in ultraviolet and X-ray light.

Interstellar for real is it not?

This animation rotates 360 degrees around a frozen version of the simulation in the plane of the disk. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center