The Phantom is a realistic fantasy about Tarchon, his girlfriend, Julia, and a paint so black it absorbs all the light that strikes it. Julia’s dad discovered the paint, Tarchon’s dad used it in his paintings, and his mom used it in her biological research to cure cancer. Life was serene for Tarchon and Julia, until the scientists in Hanford, Washington, introduced the paint into their gravitational wave detector called LIGO. Then pandemonium broke out.