S. V. Vereshchagin

In the classical gravitational ballet, a planet and its star twirl in a predictable pas de deux, but the moment a third partner appears — the choreography explodes into chaos. And if that third partner is a primordial black hole, a relic from the first moments after the Big Bang, the system's fate turns into a series of unpredictable somersaults.

The universe teems with the invisible: about 85% of matter neither emits nor absorbs light. This hidden mass, first suspected by Vera Rubin from the anomalously fast rotation of galaxies, we call dark matter.