Prowess Sovereign

Fourth in the series.

This was a bit larger work. In this I tried to put effort in detail, scale and motion. The elements in the picture:

In the middle of the picture there is galaxy Sovereign I. The extragalactic planets watch over the scene from the far distance. Ages ago there was massive star orbiting near the supermassive black hole of the Sovereign I, which resulted in the black hole slowly devouring the star over time. When the star had lost most of it's matter, it's structure failed and the fusion reaction equilibrium at it's core broke down. This caused the star to fall and rapidly collapse. The outer layers of the star exploded in a vast explosion, overpowering the luminance output of the whole galaxy for a small time. The shockwave shook almost all celestial bodies in it, but eventually they all returned to their original orbits, except for these three planets lingering in the far reach of the galaxy's rim. The shockwave shot out these three unfortunate planets into the intergalactic orbit, now not circling and individual star, but a whole galaxy.

The other members of this local group can be seen in the distance, spiral galaxy Sovereign II in the lower right hand side and the Sovereign III, which resembles Sovereign I, overlooking the massive core in the background.

The blazing core is a protogalaxy, drawing matter from surrounding interstellar space. It is forming to be a extremely massive galaxy, and would some day proudly be named Sovereign IV.

At these scales the bright spots in the background are not stars, but individual galaxies. Other local groups can be seen in the far distance, which belongs to the same supercluster as the Sovereign Local Group. The colorful background is a galaxy wall, and galaxies from other groups and clusters can be seen shining across the void. The galaxy wall can be seen in red and blue hues, for when matter flows from the void into the intergalactic space, the nearby galaxies ionize the incoming gas and make it glow, making the galaxy wall visible.

Original name: Measurement of the Gravitational Constant

In the original picture, the blue glow in the middle of the image was supposed to be a galaxy, but at that time I did not have the skills to do it. The dominating red glow was something I wasn't sure of, and now it got a meaning as of being a protogalaxy.

Link to the original image: [link]

Some information about the work:

Software used:
After Effects
3DS MAX
Photoshop

Achieved using fluid -and particle simulations, brushing and 3D-rendering.

I will be releasing scraps from the whole composition to show off the highlights of the image.