Surjeet Rajendran

Dark matter — the invisible architect of the universe, holding galaxies from flying apart. Thanks to the pioneering work of Fritz Zwicky and Vera Rubin we know: ordinary matter in the cosmos is just a negligible impurity. But what lies behind this dark matter?

The orchestra plays, though no one sees the conductor. The musicians are charged particles in the pulsar's magnetosphere, and the score is the electric and magnetic fields generated by the spinning superdense star.