INDOZONE.ID – The sun is believed to be the hottest object in the solar system. But apparently, the temperature is not hotter than any other cosmic object in the universe.
So, what are the hot spots in this universe?
Reported Live Sciencea postdoctoral fellow at the Black Hole Initiative, a research group at Harvard University, Daniel Palumbo, said the hottest place in the universe may be the light that is close to the black hole.
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“I think a good answer is very close to supermassive black holes, especially supermassive black holes that are recreational, which means they eat gas,” she said.
So far, Palumbo said, the hottest place in the universe on record is quasar 3C273, a brightly glowing region around a supermassive black hole about 2.4 billion light years from Earth.
Sighting of quasar 3C273 (NASA)
This region has a core temperature of about 10 trillion kelvin (over 10 trillion degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius), according to the Greenbank Observatory in West Virginia. However, there is still uncertainty surrounding these temperature estimates.
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Supermassive black holes are very powerful and most of them are in the heart of galaxies.
As the name suggests, they are very massive. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy has a mass millions of times greater than that of the sun.
Like other black holes, quasar 3C273 has such a strong gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape its clutches.
2023-08-20 09:03:18
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