missing mass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of missing mass
First recorded in 1975–80
Example Sentences
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Because gravity behaved as predicted, changing the law of gravity does not explain the missing mass revealed by these observations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
For more than two decades, only one experiment in the world has consistently reported detecting a signal of dark matter — the Universe’s missing mass that physicists have long tried to identify.
From Nature ● Mar. 18, 2019
The crash produced a new black hole containing 21 times the mass of the sun—the missing mass from the parent black holes was converted to energy in the form of gravitational waves.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2016
Suppose the π -meson is at rest and all of the missing mass goes into the muon’s kinetic energy.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The missing mass has been converted into energy.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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