False vacuum
A false vacuum was a vacuum that existed in a somewhat stable state and could have eventually decayed to a more stable state. A negative density false vacuum was a type of false vacuum.

In 2375, Captain Jean-Luc Picard looked over the few star charts available of the Briar Patch and noted that it was full of supernova remnants and false vacuum fluctuations. ()

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Astronomical phenomena