one might add that there are black holes at each galactic core, but it's a fallacy to depict a 3d volumetric universe from "the outside" (as there is no outside of the universe) and the volume is between 10- and 26-dimensional, depending on how much attention we pay to guys at CERN et al.

maybe bill's idea of sevl. thousand 1-poly mapped squares, then parent 'em to the camera, if fly-round anim. desired.  perhaps in line with our friends at cgsociety, poser ain't the best software for this.