Is the planet from Interstellar impossible?

[Roboramma]

Also, obviously I'm not qualified to touch the maths for a ROTATING black hole with a 10 lightyear pole. Which the one in Interstellar probably would be. So if anyone wants to shed light on that one, please help.

I recall that Kip Thorne said that the effects required a rotating black hole. I'm pretty sure I recall he said that he'd done that maths on all this stuff. Even the visuals they used in the movie was based on an actual simulation, not just an artist's rendering.

 

[Roboramma]

The main problem I see is that this would probably be more like a lot of X-ray than what you'd get from our Sun. The implications don't just include the absence of an ozone layer, but such a spectrum could break apart N2 molecules and allow even more of the atmosphere to escape into space.

That's another issue that I recall Kip Thorne mentioning. I think he suggested that it would have to be a particularly old black hole in order for the accretion disk to have cooled down enough to be mostly in the visible part of the spectrum. He also admitted that it's unlikely to find a black hole in this state (this is from memory, but his explanation was something like that. In the "it's possible but we're stretching a little" range.)

ETA: Also, shouldn't this thread be in either "Science" or "Movies"? No big deal, just a little confused about the choice of forum.

 

[HansMustermann]

It's art?