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Maitreya
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I've got a small homework question that goes:
Which would be more dangerous and why: Eta Carina exploding as a gamma-ray burst, or
the black hole at the Galactic centre accreting material at the same rate as a typical luminous
Seyfert galaxy?
I have simply estimated the flux from both of them given the average energy output of GRBs and AGNs, and their distance from the Su with inverse square law. Does it make sense that the GRB, closer and slightly more energetic is way more dangerous for life on Earth?
Which would be more dangerous and why: Eta Carina exploding as a gamma-ray burst, or
the black hole at the Galactic centre accreting material at the same rate as a typical luminous
Seyfert galaxy?
I have simply estimated the flux from both of them given the average energy output of GRBs and AGNs, and their distance from the Su with inverse square law. Does it make sense that the GRB, closer and slightly more energetic is way more dangerous for life on Earth?