![]() In the beginning, Gunn creates his own weirdo space heaven. The result is a beautifully frustrating mess of a capstone to Gunn’s Marvel career, a love letter mistakenly employed as a scrap of toilet paper. It is as if the MCU higher-ups got wind of what was going down and quickly engineered a black hole of studio notes to suck the Guardians into a tesseract of meaningless set pieces and prolonged B-plot detours. Marvel Studios/Courtesy of Marvel Studiosīecause at around the hundred-minute mark, everything in Gunn’s perfect little cinematic galaxy falls apart in a magnificently depressing fashion. Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() Conceived and executed like it’s a real-deal movie and not an algorithmically programmed piece of intellectual property, Gunn’s film features a story whose narrative beats dovetail with its characters’ development, a visual sensibility that is singular in its disparate and estimable influences, a killer soundtrack, and an overall commitment to wringing the best elements of comic-book craziness into a cinematic ride that is transfixing, transporting. 3 arrives as a breath of fresh cosmic air from writer-director James Gunn, inarguably the most talented filmmaker working in the superhero business today.īig-hearted in its emotions, imaginative in its world-building, sly in its comedic beats and almost completely untethered to the grinding gears of the larger MCU continuity machine, this new entry in the GOTG series single-handedly rescues the reputation of a mega-franchise whose wear and tear is increasingly hard to ignore. After a string of high-profile disappointments for the Marvel Cinematic Universe – including the underwhelming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the ugly and interminable Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() Explore how black holes aided the evolution of a universe suitable for life, discover how we can see into a black hole's past, and find out how we might one day image the supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy! Enter your email to download the Black Holes ebook and receive our weekly e-newsletter with the latest astronomy news.Oh, thank Groot: We finally have a Marvel movie that is worth the many hundreds of millions of dollars that have been thrown at it. If black holes draw you in, be sure to check out our FREE ebook on black holes. Strangely enough, this even includes the surface of the star that collapsed to form the black hole! Additionally, the light she sends back to you gradually gets dimmer and redder.Īccording to your perspective, Sally never actually descends into the black hole she will travel more and more slowly as she approaches the event horizon, but you will never actually see her reach “the point of no return.” Time comes to a standstill at the event horizon, such that an outside observer will never really see anything fall inside a black hole. From your perspective, Sally appears to slow down as she approaches the black hole, and the time interval between her flashes of light gradually increases. Before she leaves, Sally agrees to flash a light back to you every second. Now imagine your colleague Sally is interested in more hands-on investigation of time inside a black hole, and decides to dive towards it. The light will appear to continually slow down as it approaches the black hole, ultimately reaching a complete dead stop at the event horizon. Unfortunately, you will be waiting a very long time-forever, in fact. Imagine you want to investigate a black hole by shining a light towards it and measuring the time that elapses before the light is reflected back to you. For this reason, an observer inside a black hole experiences the passage of time much differently than an outside observer. Black holes are so massive that they severely warp the fabric of spacetime (the three spatial dimensions and time combined in a four-dimensional continuum). ![]()
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