* Astronomy

Discovery of the universe's hottest gas in a galaxy cluster
Researchers focused on a distant object called the RXJ1347 galaxy cluster in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy cluster is located about 5 billion light years from the earth. It extends to about 5 million light years in total and is known as one of the brightest galaxy clusters in the whole sky, especially, when observed in the X-ray wavelength. Although it is located far away, the cluster is very bright. Therefore, the cluster is a suitable one for us to investigate how gases and dark matter are distributed within it.
The hot gas  was detected by an X-ray telescope board the Suzaku satellite.
The scientists discovered the gas in the galaxy cluster reached 300 million degrees C.

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