COSMIC STRING


Meaning of COSMIC STRING in English

noun

: any of a class of hypothetical supermassive astronomical objects that are extremely thin but are millions of light years long, that are postulated to have formed very early in the history of the universe and to be the cause of the lack of uniformity in mass distribution of the universe, and that have been proposed to act in certain instances as gravitational lenses

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