Volodymyr Takhistov

After the Big Bang, the universe was hot and dense. In clumps of dark matter, invisible stuff felt only through gravity, its particles, colliding, annihilated, giving birth to powerful radiation. This hidden heat, like an invisible furnace, warmed gas clouds from within.

A black hole is not an eternal vacuum cleaner. Left alone in the void, it slowly disappears, radiating energy like a puddle drying on asphalt. This process, predicted by Stephen Hawking, is called evaporation.

Dark matter leaves no trace in ordinary detectors: it passes through them like wind through gauze. To spot it, you need instruments that can feel a mosquito's punch in a storm. Quantum sensors with a threshold of a fraction of an electronvolt (a thousand times less than the energy of visible light) are just that.