warm-hot intergalactic medium en · NOUN
Meanings
- (uncountable) 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| warm–hot intergalactic medium | canonical | lexicographic | |
| WHIM | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
inter-galactic medium · intra-cluster medium · inter-planetary medium · inter-stellar medium