Dunkle Materie

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German[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From dunkle (dark) +‎ Materie (matter). Coined by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in 1933, to account for the apparent mass needed to account for galaxy clusters, where the mass of luminous matter did not add up to enough of a gravitational effect, inferring nonluminous matter must exist to account for the missing mass.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

Dunkle Materie f (definite nominative die Dunkle Materie, genitive Dunkler Materie, definite genitive der Dunklen Materie, no plural)

  1. (astrophysics, cosmology) dark matter

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Descendants[edit]

  • English: dark matter (calque)