warm-hot intergalactic medium (English, noun)
expansion: warm–hot intergalactic medium (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: warm–hot intergalactic medium
tags: canonical