What would life be like in a galaxy inhabited by a powerful quasar, such as 3C 273 (4 trillion solar luminosities) or APM 08279+5255 (1 quadrillion solar luminosities).
Could life (earth-like) emerge on a planet in such a galaxy, given a sufficient distance from the core? What would that distance be, considering a steady quasar output?
What would be the radiation environment on Earth at 27000 lightyears?
What would a 1 quadrillion solar luminosity quasar look like in the sky, at Earth’s distance from the core (avg 27K lightyears).
Assuming a supermassive black hole (SMBH) of 20 billion solar masses, would humans feel the gravitational waves, or would they be detectable more easily with instrumentation?
I think this thread would serve better on the General Question Section. For now:
1) We do have extremophiles that have adapted to intense conditions here on Earth but if there are necessary items that can intermix to work together well, there can be life, not likely look like us though.
2) I don’t get what you are saying for this. Are asking how much radiation there are for this planet?
3) Some brightness, possibly different on some parts of the planet. It could depend on the composition of the atmosphere, it can be from opaque to very bright.
I meant, would there be constant high-energy gamma and heavy nuclei cosmic rays constantly bombarding us from the quasar core? Would we receive a lot more X-ray flux than we do on earth at present?
(Excerpted from Wholecloth publishing’s Exobiology for the Dull-Normal, c.2015, all rights reserved): “With a quasar at the galactic core, a fortuitously-located pulsar, and a high-albedo moon, it was almost inevitable that evolution on planet Disco has produced the universe’s only polyester-based life…”