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The result is enthralling…A captivating scientific thriller.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBBC Sky at Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fascinating…A thorough and sometimes troubling account of the hunt for dark matter…You will come away with a very good understanding of how the universe works. Well, our universe, anyway.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Brooks, \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets. But if you add all that together, it constitutes only 15 percent of the matter in the universe. Despite decades of research, the nature of the remaining 85 percent is unknown. We call it dark matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhysicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos—some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. It is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Govert Schilling interviews believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research. \u003ci\u003eThe Elephant in the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid tale of scientists puzzling their way toward the true nature of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eGovert Schilling is the author of dozens of popular astronomy books, including \u003ci\u003eRipples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the Eureka Prize from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the David N. Schramm Award from the American Astronomical Society. 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