The Hubble Space Telescope has located a black hole that closely resembles Disney’s version from the 1979 film The Black Hole. NASA scientists hypothesize that the black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC-3147 is starved of matter. This may account for the difference between this and other black holes resembling the one from Christopher Nolan’s 2014 film, Interstellar.
Black holes are thought to form an acceration disk from the massive gravitational pull swallowing surrounding matter. Matter-starved black holes apparently do not form acceleration disks. It seems that artist Peter Ellenshaw wasn’t wrong back when science was lacking an accurate description of black holes. Although Heaven and Hell probably aren’t in there, at least Disney got the look of the black hole right.
