warm-hot intergalactic medium
English
Noun
warm
–
hot
intergalactic
medium
(
uncountable
)
(
astronomy
)
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.
Synonyms
WHIM
(
abbreviation
)
See also
inter-galactic medium
(
IGM
)
intra-cluster medium
(
ICM
)
inter-stellar medium
(
ISM
)
inter-planetary medium
(
IPM
)
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