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I have a couple of questions regarding the physics of planet Miller and the black hole it's orbiting from the movie "Interstellar" [closed]

I watched the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. I had a couple of questions regarding the physics, so I looked for answers. I got them, but I was left even more questions. I know that a lot of these ...
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Physical importance of centrifugal force and Coriolis force in the context of the restricted 3-body problem

In the textbook Galactic Dynamics (Binney and Tremaine), the restricted three-body problem to find the trajectory of a test mass that orbits in the combined gravitational field of two masses $M$ and $...
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