Interstellar: Simulating a black hole for the silver screen

So Christopher Nolan's upcoming movie Interstellar includes what consulting physicist Kip Thorne calls the most accurate simulation of a black hole ever created (source article). Simulating the relativistic effects that the black hole has on light is exceptionally involved. Reportedly, some of the individual frames took up to 100 hours to render. Overall, the movie entails 800 terabytes of data (32000 to 40000x the size of average Bluray movie: 20-25 gigabytes). This simulation is an example of new media art because it fulfills multiple roles/agendas of new media art by not only inventing a new way to visualize data and making the results public, but it can also be considered engaging in science research because it led to a discovery about black holes by Kip Thorne.