English Explanatory Dictionary

warm-hot intergalactic medium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sparse, warm-to-hot (10⁵ to 10⁷ K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons in the universe at the current epoch.

Word forms

warm-hot intergalactic medium warm–hot intergalactic medium

Synonyms

WHIM

Related words

inter-galactic medium intra-cluster medium inter-stellar medium inter-planetary medium
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