PHANTOM OF UNIVERSE

2012-2014 “Phantom of the Universe “: The Hunt for Dark Matter

Type Animation Documentary

Director Joao Pequenao of CERN’s Media Lab

Script Carey Ann Strelecki

Executive Producer Michael Barnett of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Head of the Particle Data Group and former Education Coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Executive Producers Kaushik De of the University of Texas, Arlington and UT Planetarium, Reinhard Schwienhorst of Michigan State University and Abrams Planetarium, Carmen Garcia of Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Markus Nordberg of CERN and George Smoot of the University of California, Berkeley.

Featuring narration Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton,

Phantom is a new planetarium show that will showcase an exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to its anticipated discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. The show will reveal the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky, the scientist who coined the term “dark matter.” We’ll marvel at the astral choreography witnessed by Vera Rubin in the Andromeda galaxy and plummet deep underground to see the most sensitive dark matter detector on Earth, housed in a former gold mine.