Ostriker-Peebles halo

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Ostriker-Peebles halo [¦äs·trīk·ər ′pēb·əlz ‚hā‚lō]

(astronomy)

A spherical distribution of matter of unknown nature that is postulated to exist to account for the stability of the highly flattened visible disk of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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