Saturday, January 31, 2026

What is the coldest thing in this universe?

 The coldest objects in the universe are supermassive black holes. The more massive the black hole, the colder it is.

Image: Alain R. (Wikimedia)

You don’t need a very heavy black hole to reach freekin’ cold temperatures. A black hole more heavy than Earth’s moon is already colder than the cosmic microwave background.

A black hole 6 times the mass of the sun is as cold as 10 billionth of a degree above absolute zero.

The heaviest known black hole weighs in at about 60 billion times the mass of the sun. That translates into a temperature a billionth of a billionth degree above absolute zero.