Welcome to the first SciScoop Art Meets Science posting. You can submit your science-inspired art or images from art-inspired science right here, right now. In this first edition, artist Randall Kopping, who suggested the idea of an art meets science section for the site, shows us his cosmic view of the birth of a galaxy. If you'd like to post your own artwork on SciScoop please follow the instructions here
This art-meets-science image is based upon a theory of how galaxies may have formed, starting as huge clouds of gas till they became so dense in the center that a black hole forms and begins stirring the cloud, swirling it and initiating the birth of a galaxy. The image shows a proto-galaxy in a black void and starships observing the event.