Dr. Paul Sutter returns with Ars Technica’s Edge of Knowledge series to run us through the course of one of the most common forms of matter in the universe; in fact, it’s the most common out of them all. What’s odd, however, is that we know it’s there, but we don’t know what it precisely is. What is “dark matter,” anyway?
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