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Hey morningfox how much radiation is in a super-massive black hole's accretion disk and what would that radiation do to a person.?

Just saw interstellar and that part of the movie stood out to me.

Update:

say you passed within 100,000 km of it.

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  • 6 years ago
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    That depends on how much dust, rocks, and gas are falling into the BH. For an active BH, the radiation mostly is a LOT of X-rays. The radiation would first of all kill, then atomize anything coming within a few BH radii. For a 10-million solar mass BH, the radius is nearly 30 million km, so 100,000 km is practically skimming the event horizon.

    The Milky Way's central BH is quite dim, as super-massive BHs go, at only 100 times the energy output of our sun. A really active BH can have 10,000x more output. So imagine the radiation at 100,000 km from our sun, and multiply that by 100 or more.

    P.S. It's poor form to address questions to any particular person here. Please ask your questions to the forum in general.

  • bnk01
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Given that the person would be crushed to a tiny dot in a couple of nanoseconds, it's unlikely the radiation would have any time to do much.

  • dylan
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    It wouldnt do much its a wave with high energy levels. Its just might give you cancer later in life.

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