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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, (15[1]-5[1])landers (15[2])detach from (15[1])the Endurance (15[1])in a scene accurately depicting the Penrose process. (15[1]-5[1])Readings from inside (15[1])this object are encoded in a broken watch by a character interacting (15[2])with his past via a (*) tesseract, allowing his daughter to develop a theory of quantum gravity. 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. (0[1])■END■

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