English Explanatory Dictionary

dark-zilla

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Theoretical extremely massive dark matter particle, orders of magnitude greater than 10¹⁰ GeV (gigaelectronvolts), thought to be generated by a vacuum phase change event, where rapidly colliding collapsing bubbles of false vacuum generate the particles in energetic collisions.

Word forms

dark-zilla dark-zillas darkzilla

Etymology

From dark + -zilla. From being the dark sector version of WIMPzilla. Coined by Katherine Freese and Martin Wolfgang Winkler in 2023.

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