fuzzy dark matter
nounEtymology From the lack of definition (fuzziness) due to the wave-like nature of fuzzy dark matter, unlike the particle-like of hot dark matter and cold dark matter.
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Astronomy, Cosmology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A type of dark matter with very low particle mass, with concomitant very large de Broglie wavelength (such as wavelength on the order of kiloparsecs), resulting in a population of overlapping waves, and concentrations of this dark matter modeled as fields and interference patterns, over astronomical and cosmological distances.
- Derived terms
- FDM
- Hyponyms
- axionic dark matter
- Coordinate terms
- axion, Bose-Einstein condensate, superfluid