Explained __exclusive__: Interstellar

This is the film’s most heartbreaking element. Because Gargantua is so massive, its gravity warps spacetime. On Miller’s Planet (the water world), one hour equals seven years on Earth. This is a real physical phenomenon predicted by Einstein's General Relativity. 3. The Tesseract: The Fifth Dimension

There are two distinct plans for survival: interstellar explained

In the climax, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) plunges into Gargantua. Instead of being crushed, he enters the "Tesseract," a three-dimensional representation of a five-dimensional reality. This is the film’s most heartbreaking element

The "point of no return" around the black hole. This is a real physical phenomenon predicted by

Interstellar is a story about a father who travels across the galaxy and through a black hole to realize that — and it's what saves humanity, not science alone.

After the Tesseract collapses, Cooper is spat out near Saturn and rescued by humanity, now living on "Cooper Station." After a brief reunion with an elderly Murph, she tells him to go. He steals a ship to reunite with Brand on Edmunds' Planet, which—following the death of Wolf Edmunds—is the only viable new home for humanity.