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Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics, and in the movie Interstellar

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Published 13 February 2015 • © 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Oliver James et al 2015 Class. Quantum Grav. 32 065001 DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/32/6/065001

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Movie 1. (42 MB, MP4) View of a starfield under the influence of gravitational lensing. The camera is at radius r=2.6 GM/c2

Movie 2. (112 MB, MP4) View of a starfield under the influence of gravitational lensing. The camera is at radius r=6.03 GM/c2

Movie 3. (185 MB, MP4) View of a starfield under the influence of gravitational lensing. The camera is at radius r=6.03 GM/c2. The primary and secondary critical curves are overlaid in purple and the path of a star at polar angle 0.608 pi is overlaid in red.

Movie 4. (540 KB, MP4) For a camera at radius rc = 6.03 GM/c2: Animation showing the mapping between points on the primary critical curve in the camera's sky and the primary caustic curve on the celestial sphere.

Movie 5. (456 KB, MP4) For a camera at radius rc = 6.03 GM/c2: Animation showing the mapping between points on the secondary critical curve in the camera's sky and the secondary caustic curve on the celestial sphere.

Movie 6. (948 KB, MP4) For a camera at radius rc = 2.6 GM/c2: Animation showing the mapping between points on the primary critical curve in the camera's sky and the primary caustic curve on the celestial sphere.

Movie 7. (831 KB, MP4) For a camera at radius rc = 2.6 GM/c2: Animation showing the mapping between points on the secondary critical curve in the camera's sky and the secondary caustic curve on the celestial sphere.

Movie 8. (1.53 MB, MP4) For a camera at radius rc = 2.6 GM/c2: Animation showing the mapping between points on the tertiary critical curve in the camera's sky and the tertiary caustic curve on the celestial sphere.