dark matter

英语

词源

仿译自德语 Dunkle Materie，来自dunkel (“暗”) + Materie (“物质”)。最早于1933年由瑞士天文学家弗里茨·兹威基所造，因1970年代美国天文学家薇拉·鲁宾的一篇关于星系自转问题的论文而为大众所知。

名词

dark matter (不可数)

1. (天文学, 天体物理学) 暗物质
   • 2001, Susan M. Fitzpatrick, John T. Brue, Carving Our Destiny: Scientific Research Faces a New Millennium,

     The evidence for dark matter in galaxies started to accumulate in the mid-1970s. By the following decade it became clear that essentially all galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are surrounded by extensive halos of dark matter.

   • 2004, L. Bergström, A. Goobar, Particle Astrophysics and the Dark Sector of the Universe, in John W. Mason (editor), Astrophysics Update, pages 124-125,

     On large scales like that of clusters of galaxies, gravitational lensing indicates that the dark matter is smoothly distributed, on the average.

派生词

• cold dark matter
• hot dark matter
• warm dark matter

 

参见

• dark energy
• dark sector
• dark light