Scientific American covers by Don Dixon / Galactic Black Holes , June 1998

sciamcover9806 This is a traditional painting, created with airbrushed acrylics and gouache on illustration board, depicting a collision between two galaxies, the larger of which harbors a huge black hole at its core.

This has been one of my more popular paintings. A variation appears on the cover of Gregory Benford's novel of the far future "Beyond Infinity" (Warner Books, 2003).