I am trying to make a space game that involves .gif image of the space ship rotating around. While I can get the image to rotate, the transparent parts of the image become black when I do, so the ship becomes a black box with the image in the middle of it floating around. Heres how Im currently rotating the image:

private BufferedImage rotateImage(Image img, int degrees)
{
BufferedImage img2 = new BufferedImage(img.getWidth(null), img.getHeight(null), Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);
Graphics2D img2g = img2.createGraphics();
img2g.rotate(Math.toRadians(degrees), (double)img.getWidth(null)/2, (double)img.getHeight(null)/2);
img2g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
return img2;
}