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Description acceptable. For comprehensibility reasons, asymmetries in this object’s brightness and colour caused by Doppler shifts were suppressed, as described in a paper co-authored by Kip Thorne. During a slingshot around this object, landers detach from the Endurance in a scene accurately depicting the Penrose process. (15[2])Readings from inside this object are encoded in a broken watch by a character interacting with his past via a (*) tesseract, (-5[1])allowing his daughter to develop a theory of quantum gravity. (-5[1])Due to time dilation caused by this object, that daughter Murph is dying by the time the Matthew McConaughey-played Cooper returns from his mission. For 10 points, name or describe this extremely massive object located at the far end of a wormhole in a 2014 Christopher Nolan film. (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: Gargantua [accept the supermassive black hole from Interstellar; accept the accretion disk around the black hole from Interstellar before “slingshot around this object” but reject afterward; prompt on supermassive black hole by asking “From what film?”; reject “the wormhole from Interstellar”]
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