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dark-zilla

dark-zilla noun: theoretical extremely massive dark matter particle, orders of magnitude greater than 10¹⁰ GeV (gigaelectronvolts), thought to be generated by a vacuum phase change event, where rapidly colliding collapsing bubbles of false vacuum generate the particles in energetic collisions.

Noun

dark-zilla (plural dark-zillas)

  1. Theoretical extremely massive dark matter particle, orders of magnitude greater than 10¹⁰ GeV (gigaelectronvolts), thought to be generated by a vacuum phase change event, where rapidly colliding collapsing bubbles of false vacuum generate the particles in energetic collisions.

Forms of dark-zilla

pluraldark-zillas
alternative formdarkzilla

Origin of dark-zilla

From dark + -zilla. From being the dark sector version of WIMPzilla. Coined by Katherine Freese and Martin Wolfgang Winkler in 2023.

Questions about dark-zilla

What does dark-zilla mean?
Dark-zilla means theoretical extremely massive dark matter particle, orders of magnitude greater than 10¹⁰ GeV (gigaelectronvolts), thought to be generated by a vacuum phase change event, where rapidly colliding collapsing bubbles of false vacuum generate the particles in energetic collisions.
What part of speech is dark-zilla?
Dark-zilla is a noun.
What is the plural of dark-zilla?
The plural of dark-zilla is dark-zillas.

Words near dark-zilla in the dictionary

  1. dark-lanthorns
  2. dark-necked tailorbird
  3. dark-side
  4. dark-sides
  5. dark-skinned
  6. dark-zilla
  7. dark-zillas
  8. Darkala
  9. Darkar
  10. darkcore
  11. darkcutter

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