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warm-hot intergalactic medium

noun

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  1. A sparse, warm-to-hot (10⁵ to 10⁷ K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the…

    A sparse, warm-to-hot (10⁵ to 10⁷ K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons in the universe at the current epoch.

The neighborhood

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