While the sun is the most scorching object in our solar system, its temperatures pale in comparison to several other cosmic bodies. So what is the hottest place in the universe?
"I think a good answer is very near a supermassive black hole, especially a supermassive black hole that's accreting, which just means it's eating gas," Daniel Palumbo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Black Hole Initiative, a research group at Harvard University, told Live Science. Feeding black holes that host relativistic jets — or enormous beams of material being propelled to "very near the speed of light" — are particularly sweltering, he added.
