cold dark matter (CDM) mâdde-ye sard-e târik (#) Fr.: matière noire froide Any → hypothetical → non-baryonic → dark matter that is → non-relativistic at the point of → decoupling in the → early Universe. CDM plays a key role in → cosmic structure formation. See also → CDM model, → lambda cold dark matter, → Meszaros effect, → missing satellites problem. |