Their first stop was Miller’s Planet, a water world skimming the edge of Gargantua. The gravity from the black hole was so immense that it warped time. For every hour they spent on the surface, seven years would pass on Earth. It was a trap. The "thumbs up" signal was just the wreckage of a crashed lander. A monstrous tidal wave, a wall of water the size of a mountain, smashed into them. Doyle was killed instantly. By the time Cooper and Amelia escaped back to the Endurance , soaking wet and defeated, 23 years had passed.
To save Murph, to give her the quantum data needed to solve gravity, he had to go into the black hole. He knew it was a one-way trip. He and TARS detached, sacrificing themselves, using a gravity assist to hurl Amelia toward Edmund’s planet. As Cooper fell into the abyss, he watched the universe compress into a single, brilliant smear of light. He expected death. He found a library. synopsis of interstellar
Cooper was one of them, a former NASA pilot turned corn farmer, raising his two children, Tom and Murph, in a world that had forgotten ambition. The past was a myth—they taught in schools that the Apollo missions were a hoax to bankrupt the Soviet Union. But Murph, a fiercely intelligent girl, believed in ghosts. Strange things kept happening in her room: books falling from shelves, a dust pattern on the floor that looked like a set of coordinates. Their first stop was Miller’s Planet, a water
"I knew you'd come back," she whispered, her voice fragile. "Because my father promised me." It was a trap
The Dust and the Tesseract