Dunkle Materie

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Etymology

Dunkle (“dark”) +‎ Materie (“matter”). Coined by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in German 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.

Noun

Dunkle Materie f (genitive Dunklen Materie, no plural)

(astrophysics, cosmology) dark matter

Descendants

English: dark matter

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