NASA GSFC recently posted "NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole's Warped World" which shows some NASA pictures of what a black hole looks like. The posting has a link to another page with many more pictures and animations.
Anyone who saw the film "Interstellar" would recognize the similarity between the NASA and film images of a black hole. Oddly there is no mention by NASA of the fact that the initial work on the core aspect of this visualization was done by a team formed by Nobel laureate Kip Thorne who was working on. Director Christopher Nolan wanted the most accurate depiction of a black hole possible. So Thorne got a team together and modeled theoretical factors into language that a special effects team could use to generate the imagery that Nolan wanted. They even published a scientific paper on the process.
Its not like NASA is unaware of this since one of the key researchers behind NASA's black hole visualizations gave a lecture on "The Science of Interstellar" in 2016 which includes the same NASA-generated imagery based on Thorne's.
Given the tortured relationship between science fiction and science fact one would think that these occasions where a productive synergy emerges that it would be openly welcomed. One would think a little common courtesy would be exercised and that the film "Interstellar" and Kip Thorne would be mentioned by NASA in situations such as this. Just sayin'
Reference: "Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar", Oliver James, Eugenie von Tunzelmann, Paul Franklin, Kip S. Thorne, Classical and Quantum Gravity 32 (2015) 065001 (larger image)
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