> about 100x brighter than our Sun on Earth in sunny day, but for 1 second only.
Sounds hot. Flash burn everything not made of stone. Land life wouldn't survive?
Sounds hot. Flash burn everything not made of stone. Land life wouldn't survive?
If you release 5 solar masses of energy in one second, electromagnetically and with the same spectrum as the sun, half way between the Milky Way and Andromeda, every star in both galaxies would see it only a little dimmer as Sol appears on Mars.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28%285+solar+mass%...
It seems like the universe would be immeasurably more dangerous than it already is, if all of these events were primarily EM radiative in nature.
As a non-physicist, I'm also curious how gravity is simultaneously so much weaker than the other forces, but yet spacetime seems to be able to stably survive these immense releases of energy.