You may remember the movie The Black Hole, with Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, and two of the cutest robots ever put on screen (and one of the scariest). The science in the cult classic is questionable, but the adventure is real. It’s a strange eddy in the histgory of Disney films. Here’s more on black holes in movies from Sci Phi Journal:

In The Black Hole, the crew of the USS Palomino stumbles across another ship—the USS Cygnus—orbiting a black hole. The crew sits down for space-dinner with the Cygnus’ commander Dr. Hans Reinhardt, they discover he’s a little crazy, one thing leads to another, and … (spoiler alert) they’re all pulled into the black hole.

The science in the film is monumentally inaccurate, especially regarding how it depicts its black hole. From the outside, it looks like a spiral galaxy with a dark spot at the center that dips down like a funnel. This artistic choice, it seems, was inspired by grid representations of the effects of a black hole on spacetime which show spacetime funneling in towards the singularity at the black hole’s center. Indeed, just such representation is the background for the beginning credits of the film.

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