暗黒物質
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |||
| 暗 | 黒 | 物 | 質 |
Etymology
Compound of 暗黒 (あんこく (ankoku), “darkness”) and 物質 (ぶっしつ (busshitsu), “matter”).
Noun
暗黒物質 (hiragana あんこくぶっしつ, romaji ankoku busshitsu)
- (astronomy, astrophysics) a hypothetical matter that is undetectable by its emitted radiation, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter; dark matter