An unexpected byproduct of making the new movie Interstellar; they used real physics to model the black hole, with hundreds of terabytes of data and a huge rendering farm, probably the most computing power ever thrown at a real astronomical simulation. The result is apparently the most accurate model yet of what a black hole looks like. Which turns out to be a little different from expectations:

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsand...tellar-leads-to-new-scientific-discovery

No idea if the movie is any good, but at least some parts of the science should be right.

Now that they know this, will they look back at Hubble and other views into space and see if anyone has ever spotted one before and never realized it, I wonder.

I passed this on to the science teacher at my school. He thought it was pretty cool.