> more than 5 million degrees Fahrenheit (3 million Celsius) – about 100 times hotter than the surface of the Sun As my fear of Crichton's Gell-Mann Amnesia se

> more than 5 million degrees Fahrenheit (3 million Celsius) – about 100 times hotter than the surface of the Sun As my fear of Crichton's Gell-Mann Amnesia sets in, I'm being pedantic: either its about 545 times hotter than the surface of the sun (5.500°C) or they've reached "only" 0.55 million degrees Celsius. Also: its only 519 times hotter than the surface of the sun when using absolute temperature (5.778 K).