"dark-zilla" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dark-zillas [plural]
Etymology: From dark + -zilla. From being the dark sector version of WIMPzilla. Coined by Katherine Freese and Martin Wolfgang Winkler in 2023. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|dark|zilla}} dark + -zilla Head templates: {{en-noun}} dark-zilla (plural dark-zillas)
  1. (physics, cosmology) 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. Categories (topical): Cosmology, Physics Synonyms: darkzilla

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