429-furious-gulf-dixon 429-furious-gulf-dixon – A starship approaches perilously close to the black hole at the Milky Way's core in this digital cover painting for "Furious Gulf" by Greg Benford. An active galactic nucleus features a supermassive black hole surrounded by a highly energetic accretion disk spinning with concentric rings of blue, white, and orange matter. A powerful, luminous relativistic jet erupts vertically from the central singularity, piercing through the surrounding galactic plane. In the mid-ground, a small spacecraft with a bright engine trail maneuvers dangerously close to the swirling vortex of the central disk. 2004 for Warner Books. © 2005 by Don Dixon.
429-furious-gulf-dixon – A starship approaches perilously close to the black hole at the Milky Way's core in this digital cover painting for "Furious Gulf" by Greg Benford. An active galactic nucleus features a supermassive black hole surrounded by a highly energetic accretion disk spinning with concentric rings of blue, white, and orange matter. A powerful, luminous relativistic jet erupts vertically from the central singularity, piercing through the surrounding galactic plane. In the mid-ground, a small spacecraft with a bright engine trail maneuvers dangerously close to the swirling vortex of the central disk. 2004 for Warner Books. © 2005 by Don Dixon.
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